David Robinson
Senior Research Fellow

Dr David Robinson is an economist specialising in public policy and corporate strategy in the energy sector. He is completing a book for the Institute on US energy and climate change policy and has published an article on this in the Carbon and Climate Law Review, as well an OIES working paper. He is one of the lead authors (with Benito Muller and Zhang Xiliang) of the OIES -Tsinghua University report on Sino-European collaboration in the energy sector, which proposes a "joint commitment framework agreement" to lower CO2 emissions in the Chinese power sector. David is a Principal of The Brattle Group of economic and financial consultants. He is on the Board of Regents of St. Louis University in Madrid, where he has his own firm (DRA). Previously he was a Director at NERA and an advisor to the International Energy Agency. He wrote his doctoral dissertation at Oxford University on the vertical disintegration of the international petroleum industry. He joined the Institute in July 2007.