Juha Siikamäki

Juha Siikamäki is Chief Economist and Director of Global Economy and Finance Team of International Union of Conservation for Nature (IUCN). He has more than 20 years of experience working on the different aspects of economics of nature, including natural capital, ecosystem services, nature-based solutions, and financing conservation. His current key advisory roles include Advisory Committee on Resource Mobilisation for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and Technical Committee the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for the UN Statistics Division. Prior to joining IUCN in 2017, he worked at Resources for the Future (RFF) in 2004-2017, most recently as Associate Research Director and Thomas J. Klutznick Senior Fellow. He has worked geographically broadly, including in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, China, United States, Europe, and globally. He has published widely in leading academic journals in economics, econometrics, ecology, and general interest science. Originally from Finland, he has a Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California at Davis and M.S. from University of Helsinki.