PREVIOUS WINNERS
William D. Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics & Professor in the School of the Environment – Yale University, was awarded the 2023 Energy Intelligence’s Energy Economist of the Year.
The award recognizes professor Nordhaus’ pivotal role in the macroeconomic modelling of climate change, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2018. As a professor of economics at Yale University since 1973, Nordhaus has been at the forefront of developing the tools that integrate the science, economics and policies necessary to slow warming.
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics & Government; Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment – LSE, was awarded the 2022 Energy Intelligence’s Energy Economist of the Year.
The award recognizes Lord Stern’s pivotal role in revolutionizing the way economists think about the impacts of climate and catalyzed the financial community to begin to take an active role in the energy transition, stemming from his seminal report – the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change released in 2006 for the UK government.