Cameron Hepburn is Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford and Director of the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment. He also leads several research programmes including at the Oxford Martin School and the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He has degrees in law and engineering, a doctorate in economics, and peer-reviewed publications in economics, public policy, law, engineering, philosophy, and biology.
He provides advice to various governments around the world, including most recently China, South Africa and the United Kingdom, where he is a member of the DECC Secretary of State’s Economics Advisory Group. He has also had an entrepreneurial career, co-founding three successful businesses and investing in several other start-ups.
Experience
2007–present
Research Fellow, New College, Oxford
2018–present
Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
2013–present
Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Oxford
2016–present
Managing Editor, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
2013–2018
Professorial Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics
Education
2005
University of Oxford, DPhil (PhD) in Economics
2002
University of Oxford, MPhil in Economics
1999
University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Engineering
1999
University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Laws
Publications
2007
Carbon trading: a review of the Kyoto mechanisms, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
2006
Regulating by prices, quantities or both: an update and an overview, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
2003
See https://www.cameronhepburn.com/publications/, for a full list