Michael Grubb is Professor of Energy and Climate Change at University College London, following positions at Imperial College London and then Cambridge University. Following eight years as Chief Economist at the UK Carbon Trust, he was Senior Advisor to the UK Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), and then Chaired the UK government’s Panel of Technical Experts on Electricity Market Reform. Prof Grubb was one of the original members of the UK’s statutory Climate Change Committee. He has contributed to several reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, including as Convening Lead Author for Chapter 1 of the Sixth Assessment Report – Mitigation.