Rate My Professor Richard Wood

Professor Richard Wood is a part-time professor at the School of Environment and a casual senior consultant at the Institute for Regional Futures at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Sydney. His research focuses on understanding the socio-economic drivers of global environmental change, with particular emphasis on quantitative modelling and policy-relevant applications. Wood is a co-developer of the EXIOBASE global multi-regional input-output (MRIO) database, widely used to quantify environmental pressures across global supply chains. His expertise includes carbon footprints, encompassing Scope 3 accounting and applications in sustainable finance and investment; emissions embodied in trade, including border carbon adjustments; sustainable consumption and equity analysis; and circular economy assessment and modelling. He is proficient in multi-regional input-output analysis, life-cycle assessment (LCA), carbon footprint and environmental indicator modelling, and scenario development and systems modelling. XIO-SA, where he serves as director, has released a Scope 3 (spend-based) emission factor dataset for Australia. Additionally, Wood is an adjunct professor at the Industrial Ecology Programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Industrial Ecology. He previously held a professorship at NTNU from 2016 to 2022.