Rate My Professor Michael Grubb

Grubb's distinguished career integrates academic research with policy implementation. In the 1990s, he led the Energy and Environmental Programme at Chatham House. He subsequently held research positions at Imperial College London in engineering and the environment, and at the University of Cambridge in economics. From 2000 to 2010, he was Chief Economist at the UK Carbon Trust. He joined UCL part-time in 2014 while serving as Senior Advisor at Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, until 2016. In 2017, he transitioned to full-time at UCL. From 2016 to 2019, he chaired the UK government's independent Panel of Technical Experts on Electricity Market Reform. Notable publications include the book Planetary Economics: Energy, Climate Change and the Three Domains of Sustainable Development (2014, Routledge, co-authored with Jean-Charles Hourcade and Karsten Neuhoff), which won the International Association for Energy Economics Marcel Boiteux Best International Energy Economics Book Award in 2021. Other key works encompass induced innovation in energy technologies and systems (2021, Environmental Research Letters) and contributions to high-impact papers such as Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health (The Lancet, 2015). Grubb has shaped policy through evidence to UK parliamentary committees, contributions to UCL's COP teams, and advisory roles on energy reform and decarbonisation.