Brief Profile
Hilary Anderson has qualifications as indicated above, and has extensive experience in working in the areas of environmental economics and econometrics as well as mainstream corporate statistical analysis. She has presented papers on environmental econometrics at international conferences in South Africa and the United States, and has also worked on a project with the Earthwatch Institute in Brazil. Her work has covered areas from ecological economics and natural-resource economics (at Environmentek and privately) to statistical analysis at two major corporations (the HSBC banking group and British Sky Broadcasting). Her perspective brings together mainstream-corporate and environmental-economics perspectives. She can be contacted at hja@multiplin.com.


Further Background Information
Hilary Anderson started her professional education at the University of Pretoria, completing a BCom in mathematical statistics (also majoring in economics) and then continuing to integrate economics and statistics with a BCom Honours in econometrics, which she obtained with distinction. At that time she had already become interested in applying econometrics to environmental issues, and accordingly also included a course in environmental economics and policy analysis (in addition to her required Honours courses).

Subsequently, she started work as an Environmental Economist/Econometrician at the CSIR, Environmentek in South Africa. While working, she completed a master's degree in environmental management with applied econometrics (dissertation entitled "An Econometric Analysis of the Wildlife Market in South Africa"), through the University of Cape Town. She simultaneously undertook her Advanced Diploma in Project Management (through Cranefield College) thus further developing her integrative perspective. During this time, she attended numerous work-related courses, workshops and conferences. She presented papers at the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economics in Monterey Bay, California, and at the 7th Annual Conference on Econometric Modelling for Africa, in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. She also contributed at Resource Accounting workshops for Africa, with distinguished international professors, including Professor Karl-Goran Maler and Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta.

Through her experience in both environmental and business contexts, she has gained an integrative, interdisciplinary perspective on applications within and across these contexts. Her mainstream corporate experience includes working as a Senior Analyst at Peppers & Rogers (in the UK), the HSBC banking group, and BSkyB. In that capacity, her focus was on marketing and business analysis, and predictive modelling. She currently continues her activities in statistical analysis, resource economics and environmental econometrics through Multiplin.

For leisure she enjoys ballroom dancing, snowboarding, skiing, triathlons (which have included the London triathlon), wildlife viewing, hiking and birding, snorkelling and scuba diving. She also enjoys travelling, which has so far taken her to every continent except Antarctica.