Dr Cameron Hepburn

Senior Research Fellow

Dr Cameron Hepburn is an economist specialising in climate change policy and the incentives for investment and deployment of low-carbon energy technologies. In addition to his Fellowship with OIES, he is the Elizabeth Wordsworth JRF in Economics at St Hugh's College, and a James Martin Fellow in Climate Policy at the Environmental Change institute. Alongside his teaching and research at Oxford, Cameron is involved in public policy formulation as a member of the DEFRA Academic Panel, and he assisted the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change , writing two background papers and reviewing several chapters before publication. He is also a member of the Ofgem Environmental Economists Panel. He has advised the OECD on their guidance for the discounting framework for public investment.

Cameron has previously worked with Oxera, McKinsey & Co, and Shell (during his Chemical Engineering degree). He is currently a director of VividEconomics, a consultancy, and ClimateBridge, a Shanghai-based wholesaler of voluntary carbon offsets. He holds first class degrees in Law and Chemical Engineering from Melbourne University, and an MPhil and DPhil in Economics from Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar).

Publications available from the Institute online bookshop

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Emissions Trading with Profit-Neutral Permit Allocations
by Cameron Hepburn John K.-H. Quah and Robert A. Ritz, 2010. EV48 [0MB]

IATAL — an outline proposal for an International Air Travel Adaptation Levy
by Benito Müller and Cameron Hepburn, 2006. EV36 [0MB]

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