Michael Grubb

Chair of Energy and Climate Policy, Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research, Cambridge University

Professor Michael Grubb is Chair of Energy and Climate Policy at 4CMR, the Cambridge University Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research, and Senior Advisor on Sustainable Energy Policy to the UK Energy Regulator Ofgem.  He is editor-in-chief of the journal Climate Policy and is on the editorial board of Energy Policy, and was recently the Specialist Advisor to a House of Lords European Committee enquiry.

His former positions include Chair of the international research organization Climate Strategies; Chief Economist at the Carbon Trust; Professor of Climate Change and Energy Policy at Imperial College London; and head of Energy and Environment at Chatham House, and he continues to be associated with these institutions. In 2008 he was appointed to the UK Climate Change Committee, established under the UK Climate Change Bill to advise the government on future carbon budgets and to report to Parliament on their implementation.

Michael Grubb is author of eight books, fifty journal research articles and numerous other publications. He has held many advisory positions with governments, companies and international studies on climate change and energy policy, and has been a Lead Author for several reports of the IPCC on mitigation, including the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.  His book Planetary Economics, which brings together the lessons from 25 years of research and implementation of energy and climate policies, was published in March 2014: it has received widespread accolade as a “seminal” contribution, “comprehensive and profoundly important” for its presentation of a new approach to both the theoretical underpinnings and the practical policies for tackling energy and climate change challenges.