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Simon Dietz is Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He is also Research Director of the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre, and Professor of Environmental Policy in the Department of Geography and Environment. He is co-editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists<\/path><\/svg><\/a>, a CEPR<\/path><\/svg><\/a> Research Fellow, a CESifo<\/path><\/svg><\/a> Research Network Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts<\/path><\/svg><\/a>. He is a former Vice President and Council Member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists<\/path><\/svg><\/a>, and was a Food System Economics Commissioner<\/path><\/svg><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Simon has worked at LSE since 2006, co-founded the Grantham Research Institute in 2008, and served as Co-Director of the institute from 2011 to 2017. Previously, he worked at the UK Treasury, as an economic adviser on the ‘The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change’. Simon holds a starred first-class honours degree in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia (including a year at the ETH Zurich), and Masters and PhD degrees from LSE, specialising in environmental policy and economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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