Prof. Philip ARESTIS, FAcSS

Professor
Director of Research,
Cambridge Centre for Economic & Public Policy

Philip Arestis is Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Economic & Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. His research interests are economic policy, macroeconomics, monetary economics, applied econometrics, political economy, and applied political economy. He has published, as sole author or editor as well as co-author and co-editor, a number of books, and has contributed chapters to numerous others; he has also produced reports for research institutes and publishes widely in academic journals. He serves on the editorial boards of several economics journals.

Prof. David CARDWELL, FREng

Professor
Engineering Department, Cambridge

David Cardwell is Professor of Superconducting Engineering and Co-Director of the KACST-Cambridge Research Centre. He is also Head of the Engineering Department. Under Prof. Cardwell's leadership the Bulk Superconductor research group at Cambridge works on the processing and applications of bulk high temperature superconductors, which can be used to generate very high magnetic fields. He has authored over 330 technical papers and patents. Professor Cardwell has been a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College since 1993.

Yifeng (Philip) CHEN

PhD Student/Research Assistant

Yifeng is a doctoral researcher who studies the impact of climate change, climate policy and environmental policy on human health. He is currently working on the expansion of Human Health Module to account for the asymmetric effects of air pollution and other environmental threats on different socio-economic groups. He aims to incorporate the results of health impact studies into macroeconomic modelling by assessing the effects on human capital.

Prof. Douglas CRAWFORD-BROWN

Director,
Climate Change Mitigation Research Centre, Cambridge (4CMR)

Douglas Crawford-Brown is Director of 4CMR, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Cambridge Field Site in International Energy Policy and Climate Change Risk. His research, teaching and engagement is primarily in environmental risk assessment, sustainable design, environmental policy analysis and philosophy of science in policy.

Dr. Hatice GUNES

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Computer Laboratory, Cambridge

Hatice Gunes is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory. Prior to that she was a Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London, a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London, and an honorary associate of University of Technology, Sydney. Her research interests are in the areas of affective computing and social signal processing that lie at the crossroad of multiple disciplines including, computer vision, signal processing, machine learning, multimodal interaction and human-robot interaction. She has authored numerous papers in these areas, and her work to date has received over 2600 citations.

Prof. Rod JONES

Professor
Department of Chemistry, Cambridge

Rod Jones is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University. His research interests include observational and modelling studies of atmospheric structure and photochemistry. His team develops low cost air quality sensors, and are demonstrating how low cost air quality sensor networks can be used to address important scientific and political questions. Studies include low cost sensor network deployments at Heathrow airport, in Beijing and in Delhi. His team also uses portable air quality sensors to test the linkages between exposure to pollution and health impacts. These units allow us to develop activity models which we can use to predict air pollution dose far more accurately than before. They are now used for studies of Chronic Obsructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in London, and wider health impacts (Beijing and elsewhere).

Prof. Frank KELLY, FRS

Professor
Mathematics of Systems, Cambridge

Frank Kelly is Professor of the Mathematics of Systems in the University of Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989, and a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2012. In 2013, he was awarded a CBE for services to mathematical sciences. His main research interests are in random processes, networks and optimization. He is especially interested in applications to the design and control of networks and to the understanding of self-regulation in large-scale systems.

Prof. Ian LESLIE, FREng

Professor
Computer Laboratory, Cambridge

Ian Leslie is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. His research interests have been in computer networks and operating systems - particularly in respect of performance guarantees. More recently he has focused on the use of information systems to reduce energy demand. From 1999 to 2004, he was Head of the Computer Laboratory, and from January 2004 to 2009 he was the University's Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research. The PVC job involved co-ordinating research policy, providing the academic oversight of the handling of research grants and contracts, interacting with industrial sponsors and interacting with UK government on research and third stream funding.

Prof. David NEWBERY

Emeritus Professor of Economics
Director of EPRG
Faculty of Economics, Cambridge

David Newbery, CBE, FBA, is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, and Research Fellow in the Control and Power Research Group, Imperial College London. He was educated at Cambridge with undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Economics, and received a PhD and ScD in economics also from Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society. He is Vice-Chairman of Cambridge Economic Policy Associates and is an occasional consultant to the World Bank, Ofgem, Ofwat, and ORR. He has been a member of the Competition Commission and chairman of the Dutch electricity Market Surveillance Committee. He will be President of the IAEE in 2013. He is a member of Ofgem’s Low Carbon Network Fund and recent advisor on Electricity Market Reform to the House of Commons Select Committee on Climate Change.

Prof. Michael POLLITT

Professor of Business Economics
Director of Studies in Management and Economics and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College
Judge Business School, Cambridge

Professor Pollitt is the Convenor of "In Search of Good Energy Policy", jointly organised by Energy@Cambridge, Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) and CRASSH. He is Professor of Business Economics, and Assistant Director of EPRG, Judge Business School. He is also a co-editor of Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy and a member of the editorial boards of the Review of Industrial Organization, Competition and Regulation in Network Industries and Utilities Policy. He is currently a member of the Office of Rail Regulation's expert advisory panel and an advisor to EdF Energy. Since 2000 he has been convenor of the Association of Christian Economists, UK.

Professor Pollitt has advised the UK Competition Commission, the New Zealand Commerce Commission, Ofgem, Ofwat, ESRC, the Norwegian Research Council, the DTI, the World Bank and the European Commission. He has also consulted for National Grid, AWG, Eneco, Nuon, Roche and TenneT. He is the Coach on the Cambridge MBA's Energy & Environment concentration, and the University's Energy Champion for Policy, Economics and Risk.

Dr. David REINER

Senior Lecturer in Technology Policy
Director of the MPhil in Technology Policy Programme
Judge Business School, Cambridge

Dr Reiner is a political scientist and is currently University Senior Lecturer in Technology Policy and Programme Director of the MPhil in Technology Policy, a joint offering of Cambridge Judge Business School and Cambridge University Engineering Department. David has advised government, industry and non-governmental organisations on energy and environmental policy, with a particular emphasis on the politics of climate change and the social acceptability of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) and other energy technologies including smart meters and shale gas. He is frequently interviewed in national and international media including the BBC World Service, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.

Ir Tony ROULSTONE

Course Director, MPhil in Nuclear Energy
Energy Research, Cambridge

Following a degree in engineering at Cambridge, he was trained as an officer in the British Army and served in Germany and Northern Ireland, before leaving to join the UKAEA working on fast reactor developments at Dounreay in the North of Scotland.

He then spent 20 years with Rolls-Royce. Initially, this was as an engineer in nuclear submarine propulsion and later as the Engineering Director, at the time when the new nuclear reactor for the Vanguard class of submarines was being tested, produced and delivered.

Dr. Eugene SHWAGERAUS

Senior Lecturer
Engineering Department, Cambridge

Dr Eugene Shwageraus is a Senior Lecturer at Cambridge University Engineering Department and he is currently the Course Director for the MPhil in Nuclear Energy. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, he was the Head of Nuclear Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He has recently spent two years as a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he took part in an interdisciplinary study on The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle. Dr Shwageraus’s research is focussed on physics and engineering of nuclear power reactors as well as modelling of nuclear systems to assist policy decision making.

Dr. Isabelle de WOUTERS

Director of Scientific Development, Energy
Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative

Isabelle de Wouters is the Director of Scientific Development for the Energy@Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative. This aims to tackle grand technical and intellectual challenges in energy by leveraging University expertise across formal departmental and discipline boundaries from technology, physical and life sciences to the humanities and social sciences, business and management.