Education: BSc (Econs), University of London; PhD, University of Newcastle

Career: Kenneth Willis is Professor of Environmental Economics and Director of the Centre for Research in Environmental Appraisal and Management at the University of Newcastle. His research interests cover environmental valuation, regulation, and management, and he has experience in appraisal and valuation of environmental projects and policies, including agri-environmental schemes, cultural heritage, nature conservation, recreation, water quality, and town and country planning policies. His expertise encompasses environmental benefit estimation techniques (travel-cost models, hedonic price models, contingent valuation methods, stated preference or choice experiment methods), environmental cost measures (averting and preventative expenditure, and replacement cost techniques), econometrics, discounted cash flow, cost-benefit analysis, decision and risk analysis. He has also undertaken research in housing economics, labour economics and investment in industrial and factory development programmes. He has worked on environmental economics projects in Ghana, India, Iran, Malaysia, and South Africa. Kenneth Willis is co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (see url below).

Publications include: Environmental Valuation: Volume 1: Methods and Anomalies (co-editor) 1999, Environmental Valuation: Volume 2: Multi-attribute Programmes, Validity, Allocation Issues, and Case Studies (co-editor) 1999, Economic Valuation of the Environment (co-author) 1999, Valuing Environmental Preferences: Theory and Practice of the Contingent Valuation Method in the US, EU, and Developing Countries (co-editor) 1999, Urban Planning and Management (co-editor) 2001, Comparative Environmental Economic Assessment: Meta-Analysis and Benefit Transfer (co-editor) 2002; several book chapters and numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Centre for Research in Environmental Appraisal and Management, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, England; Tel: +44 (0)191 222-7807; Fax: +44 (0)191 222-8811; Email: ken.willis@newcastle.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cream/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09640568.asp/ .