Tom Bearpark
Tom Bearpark is an environmental economist whose research develops and applies quantitative tools to understand the socio-economic consequences of climate change. His work sits at the intersection of econometrics, climate science, and public policy, with a focus on improving how we measure climate damages, model adaptation and migration, and quantify uncertainty in climate risk.
He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter (LEEP Institute), where he is working with Ben Groom and Frank Venmans on the Carbon at Risk project, which develops new approaches to quantify the risk embedded in carbon offset portfolios and the implications for climate finance and policy design.
Background
Tom completed his PhD in 2025 at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, advised by Professor Michael Oppenheimer. His dissertation aimed to examine how to credibly estimate the social impacts of climate change. It quantified the health impacts of rainfall and sea-level rise in Mumbai, developed a framework for comparing alternative models of climate-induced migration, and aimed to advance statistical methods for model selection and inference in climate impact estimation.
Before his PhD, Tom worked for two years in the UK civil service, as an economist at the UK’s energy regulator Ofgem.
Research interests
- Climate impacts
- Environmental economics
- Econometrics