Professor Laura Díaz Anadón

Professor Laura Díaz Anadón holds the Chaired Professorship of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge, where she also directs the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG). She is a long-standing affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Visiting Scholar in 2021-2022 and an Assistant Professor between 2013-2016.

Among other policy-related roles, Professor Díaz Anadón has served as a Lead Author in the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III, a Member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (twice elected as Vice-Chair), a member of the Economics of Decarbonization Advisory Group for the HMT Net Zero Review, and a member of the board of directors of Cambridge Enterprise Ltd, as well as consulting or advisory roles at the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank. In Cambridge, she is a board member of the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI), academic syndicate member at Cambridge University Press & Assessment, and a member of the management board of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).

Professor Díaz Anadón has received multiple awards for her research, including the XVII Fundación Banco Sabadell Prize for Economic Research for the best young Spanish economics researcher, a Distinguished Visiting Professorship from Tsinghua University and a Senior Keynes Fellowship from the JM Keynes Fellowship Fund, as well as fellowships from Fulbright UK and Caja Madrid. She has also been awarded a large number of competitive grants from the EU, the UK and the USA, both from governments and foundations.

Professor Díaz Anadón holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a master's in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a master's in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester, including a Diplomarbeit at the University of Stüttgart, and has also done research in industry and worked as a financial consultant for banks on credit risk models.

Professor Díaz Anadón teaches, among other topics, on environmental economics, econometrics, energy, innovation and climate policy, and research methods. She teaches in Paper 4 on ‘Land, Development and Sustainability’, a core Part IA paper in the Land Economy Tripos. She also leads an MPhil elective on ‘Energy & Climate’ (EP06) and teaches in the core course on ‘Environmental Economics and Policy’ (EP02). She supervises Land Economy Tripos and MPhil dissertations and leads seminars as part of the Land Economy PhD programme.