Biography
Željka Kordej-De Villa is a highly experienced researcher in the field of environmental economics and environmental policy. She is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, where she started her professional career in 1987. Her main research interests are environmental economics and economics of natural resources, local economic development, regional and urban economics, and public policies. She is primarily engaged in applied research in the field of environmental, regional, and urban economics, and in policy-oriented studies and research-based consulting projects. Since 1998 she has been a member of the Croatian section of ERSA (European Regional Science Association). She holds a Ph.D. degree in economics from The University of Zagreb, the Faculty of Economics, Zagreb.