Biography

Cameron is an economist with expertise in energy, resources and the environment.

He is the Battcock Professor of environmental economics at the University of Oxford, based at the Smith School and the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, and is Senior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford.

He has degrees in law and engineering, a doctorate in economics, and many peer-reviewed publications in economics, public policy, law, engineering, philosophy, and biology. His work has been referred to in publications such as the Economist and the Financial Times, and he has been interviewed on television and radio in various countries. He has provided advice on energy and environmental policy to governments and international institutions around the world. He has also had an entrepreneurial career, co-founding three successful businesses and investing in several other start-ups.

Recent Publications

Aug 2024
Journal
A blueprint for energy systems in the era of central bank digital currencies
in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Iacopo Savelli ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Thomas Morstyn
Apr 2024
Journal
Turning a groundswell of climate action into ground rules for net zero
in Nature Climate Change
Thomas Hale ,  Thom Wetzer ,  Selam Kidane Abebe ,  Myles Allen ,  Amir Amel-Zadeh ,  John Armour ,  Kaya Axelsson ,  Ben Caldecott ,  Lucilla Dias ,  Sam Fankhauser ,  Benjamin Franta ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Kennedy Mbeva ,  Lavanya Rajamani ,  Steve Smith ,  Rupert Stuart-Smith
Feb 2024
Journal
Economic modelling fit for the demands of energy decision makers
in Nature Energy
Peter Barbrook-Johnson ,  Jean-Francois Mercure ,  Simon Sharpe ,  Cristina Penasco ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Laura Diaz Anadon ,  J. Doyne Farmer ,  Timothy M. Lenton
Jan 2024
Journal
Designing a circular carbon and plastics economy for a sustainable future
in Nature
Fernando Vidal ,  Eva R. van der Marel ,  Ryan W. F. Kerr ,  Caitlin McElroy ,  Nadia Schroeder ,  Celia Mitchell ,  Gloria Rosetto ,  Thomas T. D. Chen ,  Richard M. Bailey ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Catherine Redgwell ,  Charlotte K. Williams
Nov 2023
Journal
Sensitive intervention points: a strategic approach to climate action
in Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Penny Mealy ,  Matthew C. Ives ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Sugandha Srivastav ,  Peter Barbrook-Johnson
Apr 2023
Report
New economic models of energy innovation and transition
Peter Barbrook-Johnson ,  Simon Sharpe ,  Roberto Pasqualino ,  Fernanda Senra de Moura ,  Femke Nijsee ,  Pim Vercoulen ,  Alex Clark ,  Cristina Penasco ,  Laura Diaz Anadon ,  Jean-Francois Mercure ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  J. Doyne Farmer ,  Timothy M. Lenton ,  Joris Bucker
Aug 2022
Journal
Jun 2022
Journal
How Stimulating Is a Green Stimulus? The Economic Attributes of Green Fiscal Spending
in Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Brian O’Callaghan ,  Nigel Yau ,  Cameron Hepburn
Jan 2022
INET Working Paper
No. 2022-01 - Is Meat Too Cheap? Towards Optimal Meat Taxation
Franziska Funke ,  Linus Mattauch ,  Inge van den Bijgaart ,  Charles Godfray ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  David Klenert ,  Marco Springmann ,  Nicolas Treich
Dec 2021
Journal
The meaning of net zero and how to get it right
in Nature Climate Change
Sam Fankhauser ,  Stephen M. Smith ,  Myles Allen ,  Kaya Axelsson ,  Thomas Hale ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  J. Michael Kendall ,  Radhika Khosla ,  Javier Lezaun ,  Eli Mitchell-Larson ,  Michael Obersteiner ,  Lavanya Rajamani ,  Rosalind Rickaby ,  Nathalie Seddon ,  Thom Wetzer
Dec 2021
Report
Predictors of Success in a Greening World
Pia Andres ,  Joris Bucker ,  Matthew Ives ,  Penny Mealy ,  Kevin Tang ,  Michael Urban ,  Matthew McCarten ,  Sugandha Srivastav ,  Cameron Hepburn
Oct 2021
Journal
A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units
in Nature
Lucas Kruitwagen ,  K. T. Story ,  J. Friedrich ,  L. Byers ,  S. Skillman ,  Cameron Hepburn
Oct 2021
Report
The New Economics of Innovation and Transition: Evaluating Opportunities and Risks
Michael Grubb ,  Paul Drummond ,  Jean-Francois Mercure ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Peter Barbrook-Johnson ,  João Carlos Ferraz ,  Alex Clark ,  Laura Diaz Anadon ,  J. Doyne Farmer ,  Ben Hinder ,  Matthew Ives ,  Aled Jones ,  Gao Jun ,  Ulka Kelkar ,  Sergey Kolesnikov ,  Aileen Lam ,  Ritu Mathur ,  Roberto Pasqualino ,  Cristina Penasco ,  Hector Pollitt ,  Luma Ramos ,  Andrea Roventini ,  Pablo Salas ,  Simon Sharpe ,  Zhu Songli ,  Pim Vercoulen ,  Kamna Waghray ,  Zhang Xiliang
Jun 2021
Report
Zero-Emissions Shipping: Contracts-for-difference as incentives for the decarbonisation of international shipping
Alex Clark ,  Matthew Ives ,  Byron Fay ,  Ronan Lambe ,  Johanna Schiele ,  Lukas Larsson ,  Jessica Krejcie ,  Leah Tillmann-Morris ,  Peter Barbrook-Johnson ,  Cameron Hepburn
Jun 2021
Journal
National COVID debts: climate change imperils countries’ ability to repay
in Nature
Arjuna Dibley ,  Thom Wetzer ,  Cameron Hepburn
May 2021
Journal
Multiscale design for system-wide peer-to-peer energy trading
in One Earth
Thomas Morstyn ,  Iacopo Savelli ,  Cameron Hepburn

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