Ian J. Bateman OBE, US-NAS, FBA, FEAERE, FRSA, FRSB, is Professor of Environmental Economics and Co-Director of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP) at the University of Exeter Business School. His main research interests revolve around the issue of ensuring sustainable wellbeing through the integration of natural, physical, economic and social science knowledge into policy and decision making. 

Ian has advised Defra and HM Treasury for over a decade and more recently became a member of the First Ministers’ Environmental Council for the Scottish Government.  He was a member of the UK Natural Capital Committee throughout its time, advising the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for the Environment. He was also a Board Member of the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee. He has had nearly 200 papers published in international peer reviewed journals including leading journals in natural science, economics and interdisciplinary research. In 2013 was awarded an OBE for services to environmental science and policy and in 2021 was elected as an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences.