Ben McNeil

Senior Fellow

Climate Change Research Centre

University of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

Ph: 02 9385 7068

Fax: 02 9385 7123

 

 

About Ben

Ben McNeil is an Australian academic who is an expert in a range of areas relating to climate change science, policy and energy economics. A version of his CV can be found here.

Completing his PhD in 2001 he worked as a research fellow at Princeton University, USA and returned to Australia in 2004, where he is now a senior research fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.  In 2007, he was chosen as an expert reviewer for the United Nations Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change 4th assessment report and was invited to present his research to the Prime Minister and cabinet at Parliament House in Canberra. He was also recently elected to represent young scientists in the Federation of Australian Science and Technological Societies. Dr McNeil also has a Masters of Economics in Political Economy from the University of Sydney.

His writing on climate change and energy policy has been widely published in Australia’s newspapers including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, The Australian and The Canberra Times.  He has also made numerous radio and television appearances including ABC Radio National, CNN, BBC and Sky News Australia.

Ben has just published his first book in May called 'The Clean Industrial Revolution'.

 


 
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