Prof. Thomas Lindhqvist

Associate Professor/Director of Research Programs at the International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden (before 1995 Dept of Ind. Environ. Econ.)

Date of birth
4 February 1954

Nationality
Swedish

Address
IIIEE, Box 196, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden

Phone
+ 46 46 – 222 02 39

E-mail
thomas.lindhqvist@iiiee.lu.se

Languages
Swedish, English, Russian, German, French (Polish, Georgian, Arabic).

Academic qualifications

2000
PhD in Industrial Environmental Economics, IIIEE, Lund University

1990
MSc in Engineering Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University

1982
BA in Business Administration, Lund University

1982
BA in Languages, Lund University (Russian, Polish, Arabic)

Professional Experience

Apr. 90 - present

Associate Professor/ Director of Research Programs at the International Institute of Industrial Environmental

Economics, Lund University, Sweden (before 1995 Dept of Ind. Environ. Econ.)

• Director of Master’s Program 1995-1999, Director of PhD Program 2000-
• Supervised 3 PhDs (+2 planned for defence 13 June 2003), 6 Licentiates, 25 Master’s theses

Aug. 93 - July 94

Senior Administrative Officer, Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, Sweden (50%)

• Investigating and writing the proposal of the Waste Tax Committee

Jan. 90- March 90

Environmental Affairs Officer, UN Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland

• Worked with issues related to the Working Party on Low-and Non-waste Technology and Re-utilization and Recycling of Wastes

Aug. 85 - Dec. 89

Senior Researcher, Foundation TEM, Sjöbo, Sweden

• Environmental research and consulting focussing cleaner production, mainly from a policy perspective, with special focus on recycling and waste related questions

Aug. 84 - June 85

Research Assistant, Department of Transportation, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

• Prepared a report concerning policy instruments to promote recycling of construction waste

Academic Activities

I became early involved in applied research and the first substantial project I was leading was a EU-financed research project in the programme “Recycling and Utilization of Waste”, conducted in 1988-1990 with researchers from Sweden, Denmark and Netherlands. I have since then been project manager for a long series of projects, mainly related to product policies, product strategies or preventive approaches to industrial problems. Several of these projects have been commissioned by national authorities, including the Swedish EPA, the Chemicals Inspectorate, the Ministry of Environment, NUTEK, and the Danish EPA. I have been responsible for leading projects for several international organisations, and, in particular, the Nordic Council of Ministers, UNEP, UNIDO, and the OECD. Projects for other organisations include several individual industries, as well as the Federation of Swedish Industries and the Association of Car Manufacturers and Wholesalers. I have also been responsible for projects commissioned by WWF and Greenpeace. The main research areas include environmental product policies with special emphasis on extended producer responsibility and informative instruments (EPDs and eco-labelling), preventive environmental strategies, and the use of economic instruments.

In 1995, I became Director for the new international Masters Program in Environmental Management and Policy at the IIIEE – a program with a yearly budget of 4-5 MSEK, which I developed and directed during a four-year period. Subsequently, I became responsible for the PhD program, which today has almost 20 PhD students and a yearly budget of 8.7 MSEK. I have also been responsible for the IIIEE outreach program in Eastern Europe and participated in several research activities in India and other developing countries.

I have been co-leader of the Working Group on Policies, Strategies and Instruments to Promote Cleaner Production of the UNEP Network on Cleaner Production since 1990, been called as an OECD expert to various workshops and activities more than ten times, been project evaluator for the EU LIFE program at several occasions. I am member of the editorial board for the Journal of Industrial Ecology and the journal Environmental Research, Engineering and Management.