The role of gas in the transition to net zero emissions

Professor Cameron Hepburn is the Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, and Professor of Environmental Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is an expert in environmental, resource and energy economics, and a Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and a Fellow at New College, Oxford.

He has more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in a range of disciplines, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the challenges in the resources and energy sectors. He has had an entrepreneurial career, co-founding successful businesses such as Aurora Energy Research and Vivid Economics and investing in several other start-ups.

He holds an LLB and BEng from the University of Melbourne, and an MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.