Ton Manders is Head of the Department Climate and Regional Economics at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. Until recently, he worked at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. From 2015-2018 he acted as Chief Scientist of PBL. Ton Manders has a degree (MSc) in both physical engineering and economics. Special fields of expertise are economic modeling, scenario analysis, and climate policy. Ton Manders contributed to IPCC, various working groups of the Energy Modelling Forum (EMF), the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) and UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlooks. He was responsible for PBLs input in the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050. He was the author of the PBL report Green Gains. Lately, he supervised a major scenario project for the Dutch economy and the human environment.