Prof. Michael Grubb

Michael Grubb is Professor of Energy and Climate Change at University College London. Since 2024 he has also been Director of the UCL Centre for Net Zero Market Design, supported by donations from a number of leading UK businesses. Prior to UCL, he worked at Cambridge University Department of Economics, conducting research alongside positions at the UK Carbon Trust (as Chief Economist, to 2010), and the Energy Regulator, Ofgem (Senior Advisor, 2011-16). He subsequently chaired the UK government’s independent Panel of Technical Experts on Electricity Market Reform (2016-19).

With a research career starting at Chatham House, where he was head of Energy and Environment, his publications include over 70 journal articles and seven books, with innumerable additional outputs as reports and briefing papers, as well as influential FT op-eds. His book Planetary Economics won the 2021 Marcel Boiteux prize for “outstanding book contributing to energy economics and its literature” by International Association for Energy Economics. Prof Grubb was one of the original members of the UK’s statutory Climate Change Committee. His contributions to several reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change culminated as Convening Lead Author for Chapter 1 of the Sixth Assessment Report – Mitigation, after which his role at UCL included Strategic Director for the international programme Economics of Energy Innovation and Transition (EEIST).