Professor Frank Jotzo

Head of Energy, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions
Director, Grand Challenge Zero-Carbon Energy for Asia-Pacific
Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy

Frank Jotzo is Head of Energy with the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions and director of the ANU Zero-Carbon Energy for Asia-Pacific grand challenge initiative, and Professor of environmental economics and climate change economics at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy.

Frank Jotzo has advised national and state governments in Australia in formal and informal roles, as well as international organisations and businesses. In 2023-24 he leads the Australian government’s Carbon Leakage Review. He has held lead author roles with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was joint editor-in-chief of the journal Climate Policy, and has led or co-led various policy relevant research initiatives and projects.

His research and research leadership spans a wide range of aspects of climate change economics and energy transition policy. Topics include policy instruments for climate change and environment, decarbonisation and net-zero strategies, economics of energy transition, trade and investment, and political economy and international dimensions of climate and energy policy.

Frank Jotzo teaches the ANU Masters course Domestic Climate Change Policy and Economics contributes to courses including International Climate Change Policy and Economics, teaches executive education short courses, and supervises PhD scholars on topics that directly relate to his research.

Research interests

Economics and policy of climate change and energy, especially decarbonisation and energy transition; economic reform and political economy; structural change and development; Australia, Europe, China, Indonesia.

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