Professor David Newbery FBA

Professor David Newbery, CBE, FBA, is the Research Director of the Cambridge Electricity Policy Research Group, Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society. He was President of the European Economic Association, 1996 and President of the International Association of Energy Economics, 2013. Educated at Cambridge with undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Economics, a PhD and ScD in economics, he has managed research projects on commodity price stabilization, road pricing, the Hungarian transition to the market economy, utility privatisation and regulation, electricity restructuring and market design, transmission access pricing and has active research on market integration, transmission planning and finance, climate change policies, and the design of energy policy and energy taxation. Occasional economic advisor to the World Bank, DG ENER, Ofgem, Ofwat, and ORR, former member of the Competition Commission and chairman of the Dutch Electricity Market Surveillance Committee, currently a member of Ofgem's Network Innovation Competition, a member of the Panel of Technical Experts offering quality assurance to DECC on the delivery of the UK's Electricity Market Reform and Deputy Independent Member of the Single Electricity Market of the island of Ireland.