Jaume Freire González holds a PhD in Applied Economics and is an environmental consultant at ENT environment & management, Spain. He has done consultancy for many governments and institutions, and has conducted both theoretical and empirical research on several environmental and ecological economics issues. His main areas of work have been water economics, energy economics, and environmental taxation.
He is an expert on the rebound effect of energy efficiency and the Jevons' Paradox. He has widely used applied economic modeling methods such as environmental econometrics or general equilibrium modeling (environmental extended input-output methods) to analyze environmental problems, from an academic and a policy-making perspective. He is co-author of several books and has published articles in peer-review journals.