Laura Marsiliani

Department of Economics
Durham University Business School
Mill Hill Lane
Durham DH1 3LB, UK

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Laura is an economist active in the fields of public, environmental, natural resource and energy economics. She is currently a Professor of Economics, Faculty of Business Associate Dean for Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability (ERS), Fellow of the Durham Energy Institute and Centre for Sustainable Development, Law and Policy and Co-Director of the Centre for Environmental and Energy Economics at Durham University. She has held academic and visiting positions at the Universities of Rochester and University of California Santa Barbara, USA, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands and Sichuan University, China. Laura holds a PhD in Economics from London Business School and an MSc in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from University College London. She has widely published in peer-reviewed international journals. She has participated in research projects funded by the UKRI, ESRC, BEIS and the EU, and more recently in major interdisciplinary projects on renewables such as the HEIF/Research England ‘Growing Teesside’s Hydrogen Economy and Catalysing a Just Transition to Net Zero’ and the EPSRC/NERC ‘Geothermal Energy from Mines and Solar Geothermal Heat’. Her research has informed the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) on electricity pricing and capacity policies, especially in connection to captive and quick-rental power plants. She has chaired two EURESCO conferences on the International Dimension of Environmental Policy and edited two books on the same topic with Springer/Kluwer. She was a key-note speaker at the BERC-NSU-BDAEE Energy Summit 2019 held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Laura is actively engaged with the dialogue on climate change, renewable energy and net zero and is a member of the Durham University observer delegation at the UN COP conferences.

Current positions
Professor of Economics

Associate Dean for Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability (member of the Faculty of Business Executive Team), Durham University Business School

Fellow, Durham Energy Institute (DEI) https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/durham-energy-institute/

Fellow and Faculty Lead, Durham University Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy (CSDLP) https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/csdlp/

Co-Director Center for Environmental and Energy Economics (CE3) at Durham University Business School

Fellow Higher Education Academy (Advance HE)

Member of the Durham University observer delegation at UN COP

PhD Economics
London Business School, 2000, “Environmental taxation and revenue recycling”

Major fields
environmental economics, energy economics, public economics, political economy

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