Aurelie Slechten

Dr. Aurelie Slechten is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Lancaster University Management School, specializing in Environmental Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Market Design. She holds a PhD from Université libre de Bruxelles (2013) and previously served as an FNRS research fellow (2008–2012) and postdoctoral fellow at ECARES. Her research focuses on carbon emissions markets, corporate social responsibility, board networks' impact on environmental performance, and pollution-driven residential mobility.

**Education:** PhD Economics (Université libre de Bruxelles, 2013); Postdoctoral fellowship at ECARES (2013–2014).

**Research Interests:** Microstructure of carbon markets, corporate governance-environmental performance linkages, pollution impacts, and voluntary carbon markets. Current projects include analysis of EU carbon market dynamics and boardroom networks' influence on sustainability.

**Grants & Projects:** Recent initiatives include 'Price Formation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme' (2022–2023) and 'Risk Management in Carbon Markets' (2020–2022). Active in interdisciplinary collaborations, including a multi-stakeholder study on HPV-related cancers (2025–2026).

**Labs/Teams:** Member of Lancaster's Economics Research Group and Pentland Centre for Sustainability. Regularly presents at the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists conferences.