Ariel Bergmann

Dr. (Eric) Ariel Bergmann joined the Centre in September 2009 as a lecturer in Energy Economics. He graduated in 2006 from the University of Glasgow with a Ph.D. in Economics having researched and published on the economics of renewable energy. He wrote on the evolution of institutions and political economy of renewable energy, valuing the environmental attributes of renewable energy projects, and models of green certificate trading. He has an M.A. Economics (1997) with fields in Labour Economics and International Trade and a B.A. Economics (1981). Both degrees were earned at the University of Colorado. His research interests have been oriented to the interface between environmental issues and energy economics. Dr. Bergmann has extensive research experience in non-market valuation using stated preference/choice experiment research methods, financial modelling of energy and natural resource development projects and sustainability impact assessment.

Prior to his appointment at Dundee University he was a Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University's Employment Research Institute (2007-09) and a Teaching Assistant at Stirling University (2004-09). He has taught graduate level courses in Mineral and Petroleum Taxation, Energy Markets and Econometrics; and undergraduate courses in Econometrics, Mathematical Economics, Corporate Strategy, Intermediate Microeconomics, and Introductory Micro- and Macroeconomics.

Since 2005 Dr. Bergmann has provided economic consulting services to energy companies, environmental groups, non-governmental organisations, European and American local governments, non-governmental agencies and small enterprises on issues ranging from project feasibility studies, impact of environmental regulation, provision of social and governmental services, social preferences, and economic impact analysis. In 2010 he provided consulting services to a super-major oil company on the potential economic impacts from new regulatory actions to protect endangered species in Alaska.