Nikolai Drahos

Visiting Research Fellow

Nikolai Drahos is a senior researcher at the Australian Climate Change Authority. He previously worked as a senior economist at the Office of the Chief Economist at the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, where his work focused on Australia’s domestic gas market, global LNG markets and gas market forecasting. Nikolai holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Master of Environmental and Resource Economics from the Australian National University, for which he was awarded the Helen Hughes prize. Nikolai is the author of a number of OIES papers and numerous reports, including the Department of Industry’s Resources and Energy Quarterly.

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