Jim Watson

Dr Jim Watson is Deputy Director of the Sussex Energy Group at Sussex University in the UK and Joint Deputy Leader of the Tyndall Centre Climate Change and Energy Programme. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Jim trained as an engineer at Imperial College London and has a PhD in science and technology policy from Sussex University. He manages and conducts research on energy and climate policy. His UK-based projects focus on the economic and policy aspects of distributed energy systems (particularly micro-generation), the economics of carbon capture and storage, and the potential impacts of a new programme of nuclear power.

His international research includes work on low carbon technology transfer - including advice to the British, Chinese and Indian governments - and managing Tyndall Centre research on future energy and climate scenarios for China. Jim is a Council Member of the British Institute for Energy Economics and a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.