Andy Gouldson is a professor of Environmental Policy and associate pro-vice chancellor of the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds in the UK. He is also deputy director of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Editor of Environmental Policy and Governance and a visiting professor at the University of Bristol. He is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist who has worked on the relations between economic development and the environment since 1990. He sits on the expert advisory panel on social sciences for the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.