Professor Thomas Lundhede completed his undergraduate studies at the Royal Veterinarian and Agricultural University in Denmark. He has been affiliated with the University of Pretoria (UP) since 2017. At UP, he is part of the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), where he is an extraordinary professor in environmental economics. He has been an associate professor of environmental economics and natural resource management at the University of Copenhagen since May 2012.

The CEEPA’s mission is to enhance the capacity of African researchers to conduct environmental economics and policy enquiry of relevance to African problems, and increase the awareness of environmental managers, economic managers and policymakers of the role of environmental economics in sustainable development.