Graduated in Venice, Roberto Roson received a doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Umeå (Sweden). He has been “visiting fellow” at the Free University of Amsterdam, at the University of Warwick, at S.Francisco Xavier U. (Sucre, Bolivia), San Simon U. (Cochabamba, Bolivia), University of Barcelona, as well as at the World Bank (Washington) and at the Institute of Developing Economies – JETRO (Chiba, Japan). He is currently Associate Professor at Ca’Foscari University, Venice, but nationally qualified for promotion as Full Professor in Applied Economics and Economic Policy. Roson is affiliated with the GREEN Research Centre of Bocconi University in Milan, as well with the Department of Economics of Loyola Andalusia University, where he actively participates in the research group "Applied and Computational Macroeconomics". He is the author of several articles published in books and international scientific journals, and coordinator of several applied research projects, including the European FP7 project WASSERMed. He has been consultant for several organizations, including: European Commission (JRC), World Bank, United Nations and FAO. Roson in Scientific Director of the "CF Applied Economics" Research Centre . His research interests deal primarily with environmental economics, computable models for economic policy simulation and with the industrial organization of service industries.A complete and fully updated CV is available at: http://mizar.unive.it/roson/cvitae.html