Ted Loch-Temzelides, Ph.D., is the George and Cynthia Mitchell Professor in Sustainable Development at the Department of Economics and a James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Center for Energy Studies Scholar at Rice University. He has taught and given keynote and research seminars at numerous universities and conferences around the world. He has worked and consulted for several institutions, including the Central Bank of Portugal, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. He conducts interdisciplinary research on the economics of emerging infectious diseases. He has also studied climate economics and the energy transition, biological markets, conservation, and resilience. His current focus is in modeling and quantifying the economic and health consequences resulting from climate change, pollution, deforestation, and zoonotic pathogen transmission.