University of Exeter
Dr Jean-Francois Mercure is Associate Professor in Climate Policy at the University of Exeter Business School and assistant director of the Global Systems Institute. He was formerly Senior Climate Economist at the World Bank. He is also Principal Economist at Cambridge Econometrics and Chief Economist at the startup TREX. His research focuses on the economics of low-carbon transitions. He develops models and methods for public policy appraisal for assessing the effectiveness and macro- and socio-economic impacts of different approaches for addressing climate change. He co-founded the World Bank’s C3A program (www.climatecapacitycoalition.org ) aiming at increasing capacity in ministries of finance for informed low-carbon transition policy-making. He founded the UK Government-funded ‘Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition’ (www.eeist.co.uk) program, working with stakeholders in India, China, Brazil, the UK and EU. He helped raise awareness of and provide analytics for assessing transition risks and the macroeconomic impacts of stranded fossil fuel assets. He authored the book ‘Complexity Economics for Environmental Governance’.