Robert Ritz is an economist at Cambridge University where he co-directs the Energy Policy Research Group at Judge Business School and is a Fellow in Economics at Peterhouse.
Robert is a member of the Academic Panel at Ofgem, Britain’s electricity and gas regulator, and previously served in this role at the Competition & Markets Authority, the UK’s competition body.
He holds a D.Phil. from Nuffield College, Oxford, has been a visiting scholar at MIT and the IMF, and has taught economics at Oxford and Cambridge for over 15 years.
Robert advises corporates, governments, and financial institutions as a Principal at Vivid Economics (now part of McKinsey Sustainability). Earlier in his career, he worked at the Bank of England, the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and McKinsey & Company.
His research has been featured in major international news media including the The Economist and the Financial Times.
News
February 2024: Does competition increase pass-through? now published in RAND Journal of Economics
December 2023: The Economist article “An unruly OPEC is causing problems for Russia and Saudi Arabia” (2 December 2023) mentions my Energy Economics paper on OPEC vs US shale
October 2023: New version of Overlapping climate policies
September 2023: New talk on Carbon border adjustments and the future of carbon markets
June 2023: Consultation response to UK Government on “Addressing carbon leakage risk to support decarbonisation”
May 2023: New keynote on Gas markets: From energy crisis towards net zero
February 2023: From theory to practice: Determining emissions in traded goods under a border carbon adjustment published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy
October 2022: Consultation response to BEIS Review of Electricity Market Arrangements
August 2022: Does competition increase pass-through? now forthcoming in RAND Journal of Economics
July 2022: New version of Overlapping climate policies circulated as NBER Working Paper 25643
July 2022: Global carbon pricing asymmetry published in Journal of Environmental Economics & Management
May 2022: New working paper Carbon pricing and industrial competitiveness: Border adjustment or free allocation?
February 2022: Linking executive pay to climate performance published in California Management Review