Professor Cameron Hepburn
Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Oxford
Interests:
Getting to net zero as quickly and economically as possible and particularly in the final hard to abate 25% of GHG emissions.
Biography:
Cameron is is the Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, which he directed from 2018-2023; and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. He also serves as Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme, based at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School.
He has degrees in law and engineering, a doctorate in economics, and over 30 peer-reviewed publications in economics, public policy, law, engineering, philosophy, and biology. Published works include The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, Nature in the Balance: The Economics of Biodiversity (both with Dieter Helm), National Wealth: What is Missing, Why it Matters (with Kirk Hamilton), and Concerning the Future: Declining Discount Rates and Intergenerational Equity.
Cameron has advised governments, including China, India, UK, and Australia, as well as international institutions such as the OECD and UN organisations on energy, resources, and environmental policy. He served for almost a decade as a member of the Academic Panel in the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department of Energy and Climate Change.