Dr Dodo J. Thampapillai is an Honorary Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University where he previously held a Personal Chair in Environmental Economics. He is currently a Senior Fellow with the Executive Education unit at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, where he was previously a professor. Within Australia, he has held academic positions with the University of New England, University of Wollongong and the Australian National University. He also held previous Visiting Professorships at Simon Fraser University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and Christian Albrechts University of Kiel. In 2005, he was included in the list of Eminent Environmental Economists by UNESCAP and was also a member of the UNEP Expert Group in Environmental Economics. He has consulted for government agencies in Australia and Singapore, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and UNDP. Dodo Thampapillai has been teaching Economics and Environmental Economics for over 50 years leading him towards a serious rethink of how economics is taught and practiced.