Tea has a background in environmental policy, public administration, production management and economics. Her main focus is on integration of economic and environmental policies as well as sustainable development indicators.
Her recent work has focused on valuing marine and inland waters ecosystem services and the integration of economic and social analysis into marine policies. Her fields of interest and research include how to enable better policy decisions via the usage of environmental economic accounting and relevant modelling tools as well as the analysis of institutional barriers to take up inclusive national wealth accounting and management.
Work experience before SEI
- Researcher at Åbo Akademi University (Finland) 01/2005–12/2007
- Project Manager at Environment Commission of the Union of the Baltic Cities (Finland) 08/2001–12/2004
- Adviser to the Minister of Economics and Communication (Estonia) 04/2002–04/2003
- Project manager and research fellow at Policy Research Centre PRAXIS (Estonia) 08/2000 – 07/2001
- Lecturer at Concordia International University of Estonia 09/1995–06/2001, in addition many consultancies.
Education
- PhD programme at the Faculty of Economics and Business administration, Department of Finance and Economics, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (2015 – …)
- PhD studies on Public Administration at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
- Master of International Affairs (MIA), School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York, USA (1995)
- Bachelor in Production economics and management at Tallinn Technical University (1993).
- Valuing the benefits of improved marine environmental quality under multiple stressors
- Marine trade-offs: Comparing the benefits of off-shore wind farms and marine protected areas
- Valuing the commons: An international study on the recreational benefits of the Baltic Sea
- Benefits of meeting the Baltic Sea nutrient reduction targets - Combining ecological modelling and contingent valuation in the nine littoral states
- Benefits of meeting nutrient reduction targets for the Baltic Sea – a contingent valuation study in the nine coastal states
- SPICE - Implementation and development of key components for the assessment of Status, Pressures and Impacts, and Social and Economic evaluation in the Baltic Sea marine region
- HELCOM TAPAS - Development of HELCOM tools and approaches for the Second Holistic Assessment of the Ecosystem Health of the Baltic Sea
- Capacity building, programmatic development and communication in the field of environmental taxation and budgetary reform
- BONUS Coherent policies and governance of the Baltic Sea Ecosystems (Go4Baltic)
- Estonian Climate Adaptation Strategy for Infrastructure and Energy