David Newbery
British academic
David Michael Garrood Newbery, CBE, FBA (born 1 June 1943), is a British economist who has been Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge since 1988. He specialises in the field of energy economics, and he writes on the regulation of electricity markets. His interests also include climate change mitigation and environmental policy, privatisation, and risk.
Early life
Newbery was born on 1 June 1943 at Fulmer Chase, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. He studied at Portsmouth Grammar School from 1954 till 1961, where he won Best Science Candidate in Cambridge GCE A&S Level. He read Mathematics and Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, obtaining a B.A. in 1964, M.A. (Cantab.) in 1968 and a Ph.D. degree in 1976.
Career
In 1965 he was pre-elected to a Churchill Teaching Fellowship. In 1966 he gained the position of University Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics. He was the Director of the Department of Applied Economics from 1988 until 2003. He also served as a Professor II at Tromso University, Norway from 2011 until 2013.
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