ENVIRONMENTAL LAWFORCE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Education / Master in Law / Master in Anthropology
• Research Director Environmental Law at the Center for Environmental

Carole Billiet is Research Director Environmental Law at the Center for Environmental and Energy Law (CM&ER) of the UGent. Since years, her research focuses on public law enforcement, especially the administrative enforcement of environmental law. She also studies the use and interrelation of environmental policy instruments, with a specific interest in authorization mechanisms. Her theoretical work is complemented by empirical research such as inspection policies, criminal and administrative fining, and criminal and administrative remedial sanctioning. She has been part of several law & economics research projects dealing with those topics. Currently, she works on public law enforcement systems for collaborative policy fields (national heritage, child care), the relations between enforcement actors (inspections - prosecutors, administrations - criminal courts, NGO's - criminal courts) and the EU law dimension of environmental law enforcement. She is chair of the working group Sanctioning, prosecution and judicial practice of the EU LIFE+ project LIFE14 GIE/UK/000043 (2015-2020) aiming to improve capacity and effectiveness in the prosecution of environmental crime throughout the EU (https://www.environmentalprosecutors.eu/eu-life-project). Carole Billiet is also lawyer at the Brussels Bar (http://equal-partners.eu/en/). She has served as vice-president and acting president of the Environmental Enforcement Court of Flanders, an administrative high court created to support the enforcement of environmental law in the Flemish Region (2009-2015), and as member of the Environmental College of the Brussels Capital Region, an independent body deciding on appeals against environmental permitting decisions and administrative sanctions imposed for environmental offences (2000-2009).

Job Titles:

• Associate Professor at the Research Center for Economics
• Education

Sandra Rousseau is an associate professor at the Research Center for Economics and Corporate Sustainability (CEDON) of the KULeuven. Her research is centered around three themes: 1) Environmental Economics, 2) Law and Economics and 3) Scientometrics. As a rule, there are theoretical and applied aspects as well as data gathering aspects to her work. She started her research career in the field of environmental economics and more specifically with a Ph.D. on the monitoring and enforcement of environmental policy instruments. The main focus of her research concerns the design, implementation and evaluation of environmental policy and policy instruments such as environmental taxes, tradable permits and labeling systems. To this end she explicitly takes the implementation of policy in practice into account by allowing for administrative costs, imperfect compliance and asymmetric information. More recently, she is also exploring the implementation of non-market valuation techniques, since an explicit (monetary) valuation of the impacts associated with policy scenarios is crucial when evaluating and designing an adequate environmental policy.

Job Titles:

• Education
• Professor at the KULeuven

Stef Proost is full professor at the KULeuven. He teaches environmental economics, energy economics and transport economics to economists and engineers. He is co-founder of the Energy Institute of the KULeuven and co-founder of the spin-off Transport Mobility Leuven (TML). He is specialized in using partial and general equilibrium models to address public policy questions: optimal pricing and investment in transport, choice of policy instruments for environmental policy, energy pricing questions. He is co-author of the models TRENEN, TREMOVE, MOLINO, MARKAL and GEM-E3 that are used widely in the EU. He coordinated and participated in several European research consortia (TRENEN-II, FUNDING, GEM-E3, PRIMES, MARKAL, CAPRI, AUTO-OIL 2, UNITE, MC-ICAM, REVENUE, etc.). He also participated in transatlantic US-Europe research networks. He has served as an expert for EU Administrations for Transport, Environment, Energy and Economic and Financial affairs, for OECD, UIC, for the federal and regional governments of Belgium and for a few other national governments as well as for private firms in the energy and transport sector.