appointments include:

  • Official Fellow, New College, Oxford
  • Advisory Panel on Energy and Climate Security
  • Chairman, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Academic Panel
  • Fellow, Institute of Energy
  • Professor, University of Oxford
  • Associate Editor, Oxford Review of Economic Policy


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Dieter Helm is an economist, specialising in utilities, infrastructure, regulation and the environment, and concentrates on the energy, water and transport sectors in Britain and Europe.

He is Professor at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. He holds a number of advisory board appointments, including Chairman of the Academic Panel, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and member of the Advisory Panel on Energy and Climate Security, Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. He was a member of the DTI Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board, 2002-2007 and of the Prime Minister's Council of Science and Technology, 2004-2007.

He is associate editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. His career to date has spanned academia, public policy and business. He founded OXERA in 1982, was a member of the DTI's Energy Advisory Panel from 1993-2003, and has published extensively on economic topics.

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Presentations

Is UK Energy Policy fit for Purpose?
Presentation at the Adam Smith Institute 13th Annual Future of Utilities Conference March 10th 20...more

The Economic Implications of the EU Climate Change Policy
Presentation to the European Central Bank March 6th 2008...more

Publications

Commentary

A new regulatory model for water: the periodic review, financial regulation and competition
Water regulation has not been going particularly well. Rather than following a dull, predictable and...more

Political opportunism and energy policy: windfall taxes, arm-twisting and their effects on investmen
The British government prides itself on creating a stable, competitive energy market, and advocates ...more