Michael Pollitt is Professor of Business Economics at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is an Assistant Director of the university’s Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) and a Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics and Management at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

He is a former external economic advisor to Ofgem. He is a member of the editorial board of the Review of Industrial Organization, Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, Utilities Policy and The Energy Journal. He was a founding co-editor of Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy.

His research interests include productivity analysis, measurement of economic reform impacts and future electricity and carbon market design and regulation.

Michael has a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.