{{Short description|Australian economist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox economist | name = Cameron Hepburn | school_tradition =
| image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Australia | institution = University of Oxford | field = {{hlist |Environmental Economics}} | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list |University of Melbourne |University of Oxford}} | awards = | signature = }} '''Cameron Hepburn''' is the former Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, the Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-08 |title=Oxford University announces the Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics |url=https://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-university-announces-battcock-professor-environmental-economics |access-date=2023-06-12 |website=www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> and formerly a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.<ref name=bio>{{cite web |url=http://www.cameronhepburn.com/biography/ |title=Biography |publisher=cameronhepburn.com |access-date=17 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107023133/http://www.cameronhepburn.com/biography/ |archive-date=7 November 2014 }}</ref> He is also the Co-Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/550 |title=People Professor Cameron Hepburn |publisher=oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/ |access-date=6 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/programmes/sustainability |title=Programmes - Economics of Sustainability |publisher=inet.ox.ac.uk/ |access-date=17 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217112453/http://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/programmes/sustainability |archive-date=17 December 2014 }}</ref>
== Education == Hepburn attended Camberwell Grammar School and received his undergraduate education in law and engineering at the University of Melbourne in Australia and his master's degree and doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/profile/cameron-hepburn/ |title=Cameron Hepburn Professorial Research Fellow |publisher=lse.ac.uk |access-date=17 November 2014}}</ref>
== Career == Hepburn was an advisor to the former UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.<ref name=morebio>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/550 |title=People Professor Cameron Hepburn Director, Economics of Sustainability, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School |publisher=oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk |access-date=17 November 2014}}</ref> He used to be part of the Academic Panel within the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.<ref name=morebio/> Hepburn advised the UN and the OECD on environmental policy, energy and resources.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oxfordenergy.org/author/cameron-hepburn/ |title=Cameron Hepburn | Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Oxford Institute for Energy Studies |work=oxfordenergy.org |year=2014 |access-date=7 November 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141107085729/http://www.oxfordenergy.org/author/cameron-hepburn/# |archive-date=7 November 2014 }}</ref> He has also worked at Shell, Mallesons, and McKinsey & Company.<ref name=morebio/>
His business endeavours have included co-founding Climate Bridge, a transnational developer of clean energy projects, as well as Vivid Economics, an environment and energy consultancy firm. In 2013 Hepburn co-founded Aurora Energy Research.<ref name=CL /> His role in co-founding these clean energy companies led in part to receiving the 2015 Advance Global Australian Award in Clean Energy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Advance |date=2015-07-29 |title=Winners of 2015 Advance Global Australian Awards announced |url=https://www.manmonthly.com.au/winners-of-2015-advance-global-australian-awards-announced/ |access-date=2023-06-12 |website=Manufacturers' Monthly |language=en-AU}}</ref> In 2021, Vivid Economics was acquired by McKinsey & Company.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2021-03-08 |title=McKinsey acquires sustainability consultancy Vivid Economics |url=https://www.consultancy.uk/news/27193/mckinsey-acquires-sustainability-consultancy-vivid-economics |access-date=2023-06-12 |website=www.consultancy.uk |language=en}} </ref> Hepburn was the Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vetter |first=David |title=Flight-Free Climate Conference Warns: 'We Are Not Acting Like This Is An Emergency' |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2021/09/10/flight-free-climate-conference-warns-we-are-not-acting-like-this-is-an-emergency/ |access-date=2023-06-12 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>, the Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and Co-Director of the Net Zero Carbon Investment Initiative.<ref name=CE>{{cite web | url=https://cepr.org/about/people/cameron-hepburn | title=Cameron Hepburn | date=31 July 2018 }}</ref>
== Research == Hepburn was a Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science and his research interests include environmental economics, climate change economics, environmental policy, carbon markets and emissions trading, sustainability, and behavioural economics<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/profile/cameron-hepburn/ |title=Cameron Hepburn |publisher=lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/ |access-date=6 November 2014}}</ref>. He has published in a range of disciplines including economics, public policy, law, engineering, philosophy, and biology.<ref name="CL">{{Cite web |date=2017-01-31 |title=Cameron Hepburn |url=https://clcouncil.org/staff/cameron-hepburn/ |access-date=2023-06-12 |website=Climate Leadership Council |language=en-US}}</ref> His research has been presented at TEDx in Vienna<ref>{{Citation |last=Hepburn |first=Cameron |title=Runaway solutions for climate change {{!}} Cameron Hepburn {{!}} TEDxVienna |date=2019-12-06 |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_hepburn_runaway_solutions_for_climate_change |access-date=2023-06-12}}</ref>, and in London.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZukUaqQ8RGc&t=9s | title=How solving the climate crisis will make us richer | Cameron Hepburn | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool | website=YouTube }}</ref>
Hepburn is an expert on economically-informed global environmental policy, especially government responses to climate change.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |date=2021-05-24 |title=Trials to suck carbon dioxide from the air to start across the UK |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/24/trials-to-suck-carbon-dioxide-from-the-air-to-start-across-the-uk |access-date=2023-06-12 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> This has included novel ideas to find "sensitive intervention points" in his role chairing the UK Committee on Climate Change Policy Advisory Group,<ref>{{Cite web| title=Sensitive intervention points to achieve net-zero emissions | url=https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CCC-Policy-Advisory-Group-Report-2020-FINAL.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203102351/https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CCC-Policy-Advisory-Group-Report-2020-FINAL.pdf | archive-date=2021-02-03}}</ref> and to reduce emissions influencing consumers away from climate change drivers, such as introducing a meat tax.<ref>{{Cite web | title=It's time for a meat tax. Here's how to make it work | url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90778774/its-time-for-a-meat-tax-heres-how-to-make-it-work | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814120721/https://www.fastcompany.com/90778774/its-time-for-a-meat-tax-heres-how-to-make-it-work | access-date=2026-02-02 | archive-date=2022-08-14}}</ref> His work on removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has led him to take on positions such as the Principal Investigator of the Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://co2re.org/people/prof-cameron-hepburn/ | title=Prof Cameron Hepburn }}</ref> The project is funded by the UK government as a part of its mission to reduce the effects of climate change.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ukri.org/news/uk-invests-over-30m-in-large-scale-greenhouse-gas-removal/ | title=UK invests over £30m in large-scale greenhouse gas removal | date=24 May 2021 }}</ref>
==Selected publications== * {{cite journal |last1=Kruitwagen |first1=L. |last2=Story |first2=K. T. |last3=Friedrich |first3=J. |last4=Byers |first4=L. |last5=Skillman |first5=S. |last6=Hepburn |first6=C. |title=A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units |journal=Nature |date=28 October 2021 |volume=598 |issue=7882 |pages=604–610 |doi=10.1038/s41586-021-03957-7 |pmid=34707304 |bibcode=2021Natur.598..604K |s2cid=240071854 |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0478449c-ccbb-4f52-afb3-d38ffef3a7fa }} * {{cite journal |last1=Hepburn |first1=Cameron |last2=O'Callaghan |first2=Brian |last3=Stern |first3=Nicholas |last4=Stiglitz |first4=Joseph |last5=Zenghelis |first5=Dimitri |title=Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change? |journal=Oxford Review of Economic Policy |date=28 September 2020 |volume=36 |issue=Supplement_1 |pages=S359–S381 |doi=10.1093/oxrep/graa015 |doi-access=free |url=https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/112458/ |pmc=7239121 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Hepburn |first1=Cameron |last2=Stern |first2=Nicholas |last3=Stiglitz |first3=Joseph E. |title='Carbon pricing' special issue in the European economic review |journal=European Economic Review |date=August 2020 |volume=127 |article-number=103440 |doi=10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103440 |pmid=32336763 |pmc=7180378 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Hepburn |first1=Cameron |last2=Adlen |first2=Ella |last3=Beddington |first3=John |last4=Carter |first4=Emily A. |last5=Fuss |first5=Sabine |last6=Mac Dowell |first6=Niall |last7=Minx |first7=Jan C. |last8=Smith |first8=Pete |last9=Williams |first9=Charlotte K. |title=The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal |journal=Nature |date=7 November 2019 |volume=575 |issue=7781 |pages=87–97 |doi=10.1038/s41586-019-1681-6 |pmid=31695213 |bibcode=2019Natur.575...87H |s2cid=207911705 |doi-access=free |hdl=10044/1/75208 |hdl-access=free }} * {{cite journal |last1=Farmer |first1=J. D. |last2=Hepburn |first2=C. |last3=Ives |first3=M. C. |last4=Hale |first4=T. |last5=Wetzer |first5=T. |last6=Mealy |first6=P. |last7=Rafaty |first7=R. |last8=Srivastav |first8=S. |last9=Way |first9=R. |title=Sensitive intervention points in the post-carbon transition |journal=Science |date=12 April 2019 |volume=364 |issue=6436 |pages=132–134 |doi=10.1126/science.aaw7287 |pmid=30975879 |bibcode=2019Sci...364..132F |s2cid=109941175 |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0520b2e6-7ec2-4f74-b3da-0701d3eab8b7 }} * {{cite book |doi=10.1093/oso/9780198803720.001.0001 |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-19-880372-0 |editor-last1=Hamilton |editor-last2=Hepburn |editor-first1=Kirk |editor-first2=Cameron |title=National Wealth: What is Missing, Why it Matters }} * {{cite book |doi=10.4337/9780857939067.00026 |chapter=Less precision, more truth: Uncertainty in climate economics and macroprudential policy |title=Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change |year=2020 |last1=Hepburn |first1=Cameron |last2=Farmer |first2=J. Doyne |isbn=978-0-85793-906-7 |s2cid=225799433 }} * {{cite book |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199676880.001.0001 |title=Nature in the Balance |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-19-967688-0 |editor-last1=Helm |editor-last2=Hepburn |editor-first1=Dieter |editor-first2=Cameron }} * {{cite journal |last1=Hepburn |first1=Cameron J. |last2=Quah |first2=John K.-H. |last3=Ritz |first3=Robert A. |title=Emissions trading with profit-neutral permit allocations |journal=Journal of Public Economics |date=February 2013 |volume=98 |pages=85–99 |doi=10.1016/j.jpubeco.2012.10.004 }} * {{cite book |doi=10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199573288.001.0001 |title=The Economics and Politics of Climate Change |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-19-957328-8 |editor-last1=Helm |editor-last2=Hepburn |editor-first1=Dieter |editor-first2=Cameron }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.cameronhepburn.com/ Personal website] * [http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/550 Oxford Martin School profile]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hepburn, Cameron}} Category:21st-century Australian economists Category:21st-century Australian academics Category:Australian Rhodes Scholars Category:University of Melbourne alumni Category:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Category:Environmental economists Category:Fellows of New College, Oxford Category:Living people Category:People associated with renewable energy Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:People educated at Camberwell Grammar School