Steven Fries
Senior Associate Fellow
Biography
Steven is a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a member of the UK Climate Change Committee. Prior to his current roles, he was chief economist at Shell and at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. He also previously served in several senior roles at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, including as deputy chief economist. He began his career at the International Monetary Fund.
His current research focuses on the economics of transforming energy systems, policies to accelerate change, and sustainable finance. He is author of Transforming Energy Systems: Economics, Policies and Change (Elgar 2021). He has also published widely on enterprise and financial reforms in Eastern Europe’s post-communist transition and on financial economics.
He has a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Economics and Finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
