Cameron Hepburn


Cameron Hepburn is an Australian Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Science, both in the United Kingdom. He is Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School.

Education

Hepburn attended Camberwell Grammar School and received his undergraduate education at the University of Melbourne in Australia and his master's degree and doctorate from the University of Oxford.

Career

Hepburn is an advisor to the UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. He used to be part of the Academic Panel within the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. Hepburn advised the UN and the OECD on environmental policy, energy and resources. He has also worked at Shell, Mallesons, and McKinsey & Company.

Research

Hepburn is a research fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science and his research interests are "Environmental economics; Climate change economics; Environmental policy; Carbon markets and emissions trading; Sustainability; Behavioural economics." Hepburn has "over 30 peer-reviewed publications in a range of disciplines."

Selected publications