About RMGEO Consultants
Bridging rigorous economics and environmental science
Director and Lead Economist · Dr. Onil Banerjee
Putting natural capital at the heart of macroeconomic policy — for Finance Ministries, Central Banks, and the multilateral institutions that work with them.
RMGEO Consultants Inc. provides expertise globally to enrich public policy and investment decision-making, bridging rigorous economics and environmental science to inform the decisions that shape national economies.
Dr. Onil Banerjee founded RMGEO Consultants Inc. in 2002 and subsequently spent a decade as a Natural Resource Economist with the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, where he built integrated economic-environmental modeling capacity inside Finance Ministries, Central Banks, and Statistical Offices across Latin America and the Caribbean. He has since returned to RMGEO — extending the framework’s geographic reach and producing the enhancements that define the IEEM+ESM platform today.
RMGEO’s Flagship Platform
The IEEM+ESM Framework
The Integrated Economic-Environmental Modeling framework couples a recursive-dynamic Computable General Equilibrium model with spatial land-use, land-cover change, and ecosystem services modeling. Built and applied across more than forty countries worldwide, it translates ecosystem service flows into the macroeconomic indicators that drive decisions: GDP, national wealth, sectoral output, and employment.
Approach
The RMGEO Network Model
RMGEO does not staff projects from a fixed roster. For each engagement, we assemble a bespoke team drawn from a global network of thought leaders in environmental economics, ecosystem services modeling, land-use change, and computable general equilibrium — selected for the specific demands of the country, sector, and policy question at hand. This keeps the work at the frontier of the discipline and aligned squarely with the client’s problem, not the team that happens to be on the bench.
Selected Engagements
Institutions and governments
Multilateral and Bilateral
- Inter-American Development Bank
- World Bank
- Multiple United Nations Agencies
- USAID
- GIZ
- Global Affairs Canada
Governments and Research
- Governments across Latin America and the Caribbean
- Government of Brazil
- Governments of Rwanda and Zambia
- CSIRO (Australia)