Dr. Rob Tinch has 20 years’ experience in environmental and ecological economics. Rob is director of Iodine sprl (Belgium) and also senior visiting researcher at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Brussels representative and senior consultant with Economics for the Environment Consultancy ltd (UK), and senior research associate with Median SCP (Spain). He works primarily on European research projects, including BESAFE (with eftec), OPERAs and IMPRESSIONS (Iodine), and MIDAS (Median). Previous projects include HERMIONE, SPIRAL and RUBICODE (with Median), CLIMSAVE (as a ‘natural person’), and RAPIDO (Environmental Futures). He works on shorter projects for a range of UK and international clients, mostly in the public sector. Previously he has worked at the University of East Anglia (1998-2003) as a lecturer in the School of Environmental Sciences, and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment.