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Professor Laura D铆az Anad贸n

MEng MPP PhD
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College positions
Fellow, College Supervisor in Environment, Law, and Economics, Director of Studies in Environment, Law, and Economics
University positions
Chaired Professor of Climate Change Policy, Department of Land Economy, Director of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG)

Background

Professor Laura D铆az Anad贸n 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 D铆az Anad贸n 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.

Professor D铆az Anad贸n has received multiple awards for her research, including the XVII Fundaci贸n 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. She was selected as one of the 15 founding members of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate, where she was twice elected as Vice-Chair of the Board.

Professor D铆az Anad贸n 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 St眉ttgart, and has also done research in industry and worked as a financial consultant for banks on credit risk models.

Teaching

Professor D铆az Anad贸n teaches, among other topics, on environmental economics, econometrics, energy, innovation and climate policy, and research methods. She teaches in Paper 4 on 鈥楲and, Development and Sustainability鈥, a core Part IA paper in the Environment, Law, and Economics Tripos. She also leads an MPhil elective on 鈥楨nergy & Climate鈥 (EP06) and teaches in the core course on 鈥楨nvironmental Economics and Policy鈥 (EP02). She supervises Environment, Law, and Economics Tripos and MPhil dissertations and leads seminars as part of the PhD programme.

Publications

Weinold, MP, Kolesnikov, S, Anadon, LD. .' Nature Energy (2025). DoI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01757-1.

Navia, D., Anadon, LD. 鈥樷. Nature Energy (2025). DoI: 10.1038/s41560-025-01704-0

Galeazzi, C, Steinbuks, J, Anadon, LD. 鈥. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2024) Volume 199. DoI: 10.1016/j.rser.2024.114444

Doblinger, C, Surana, K, Li, D, Hultman, N, Anadon, LD. .' Research Policy (2022) 51(7):104558. DoI: 10.1016/j.respol.2022.104558

Meng, J, Way, R, Verdolini, E, Anadon, LD. 鈥樷. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) (2021) 118(27).