Professor Dodo J. THAMPAPILLAI is an economist at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy - National University of Singapore.

Dodo previously held a personal chair in Environmental Economics at Macquarie University in Australia, where he currently holds an adjunct professorship. He also held an adjunct professorship in the same field at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Uppsala) until 2009, following a periods Visiting Professorships between 1993 and 2001. He was awarded the DFG Professorship in Germany (University of Kiel 1999/2000).

In 2005, he was included in the list of Eminent Environmental Economists by UNESCAP and was previously a member of the UNEP Expert Group in Environmental Economics. He has over 150 publications including seven books and nine refereed monographs. His book with Matthias Ruth - Environmental Economics: Concepts Methods and Policies - was released by Routledge (UK) in May of this year (2019).