Lena Höglund Isaksson

Biography

Lena Hoglund-Isaksson joined IIASA’s Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases (AIR) Program (formerly Mitigation of Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases Program) in January 2004. She has developed the methane module in the GAINS model and is coordinating various policy applications involving anthropogenic non-CO2 greenhouse gases. These include contributions of non-CO2 emissions and mitigation scenarios to EU’s energy and climate policy (2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2016) and various global assessments of mitigation potentials for methane and non-CO2 greenhouse gases used to identify cost-effective mitigation strategies and/or used as input to climate models, e.g., ECLIPSE (2014), UNEP (2011) assessment of short-lived climate forcers and the Arctic Council's AMAP Expert Group on Methane assessment report (2015). Dr. Hoglund-Isaksson earned her PhD in environmental economics in 2000, from Gothenburg University, Sweden. Her other research interests include theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental policy instruments, in particular refund schemes. Her previous positions include a post-doc at the University of Vienna (2002) and research assistant at University of Gothenburg (1993-2000). She has held short-term employment contracts with the World Bank (1995) and Sida (1993), as well as carrying out consultancy work for OECD and IAEA. She has taught microeconomics at the Universities of Vienna and Gothenburg, and environmental economics at Skovde University College.

Research Interest

Her research interests includes air quality assurance and greenhouse gases.