- Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Oxford
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
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2007–presentResearch Fellow, New College, Oxford
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2018–presentDirector, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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2013–presentProfessor of Environmental Economics, University of Oxford
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2016–presentManaging Editor, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
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2013–2018Professorial Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics
Education
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2005University of Oxford, DPhil (PhD) in Economics
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2002University of Oxford, MPhil in Economics
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1999University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Engineering
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1999University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Laws
Publications
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2007Carbon trading: a review of the Kyoto mechanisms, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
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2006Regulating by prices, quantities or both: an update and an overview, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
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2003See https://www.cameronhepburn.com/publications/, for a full list
Honours
Rhodes Scholarship for Australia, 2000
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