Professor Michael Grubb is Chair of the international research organization Climate Strategies, headquartered at Cambridge University where is also a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Economics. His former positions include Chief Economist at the Carbon Trust, Professor of Climate Change and Energy Policy at Imperial College London, and head of Energy and Environment at Chatham House, and he continues to be associated with these institutions. In 2008 he was appointed to the UK Climate Change Committee, established under the UK Climate Change Bill to advise the government on future carbon budgets and to report to Parliament on their implementation.

Michael Grubb is author of seven books, fifty journal research articles and numerous other publications. He has held numerous advisory positions with governments, companies and international studies on climate change and energy policy, and has been a Lead Author for several reports of the IPCC on mitigation, including the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.  He is editor-in-chief of the journal Climate Policy and is on the editorial board of Energy Policy.  His most recent works have been directing Climate Strategies research on competitiveness dimensions of the EU ETS, now extending into analysis of EU ETS design and impacts to 2020; and editing a book A low carbon electricity system for the UK: technology, economics and policy (Cambridge University Press, May 2008).

Policy Impact.  In addition to his institutional and advisory positions and publications, Michael Grubb has testified on climate policy to numerous UK House Committee enquiries and the European Parliament Climate Change Committee. During 2006, he also testified before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, gave the keynote talk at the IBRD’s 2006 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), and presented to the Board of EBRD. He also initiated and chaired the global Innovation Modelling Comparison project that was widely cited in both the Stern Review and the IPCC Fourth Assessment. He appears regularly in media and has appeared on Newsnight, the Today programme, and frequently on BBC World and World Service.