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, member of the expert panel for the Department of Transport's Review of the Regulation of Airports 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

Market Regulation and Energy Security
Slides for the Energy Security Awayday at DBERR September 16th 2008more

An Authoritative view of how economists should approach sustainable development
HM Treasury, Government Economic Service and Sustainable Development Commission Conference on Sustai...more

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Commentary

Populism and Natural Resources: An Energy Policy Harvard Research Project
An Energy Policy Research Project Harvard Electricity Policy Group John F. Kennedy School of Governm...more

Commentary: How to tackle fuel poverty
Back in 2000, with impeccably bad timing, John Prescott committed the government to eliminate fuel p...more