Professor Peter Taylor

Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems

University of Leeds

Email: P.G.Taylor@leeds.ac.uk

 

Peter has over thirty years of experience working on a wide range of energy and climate change policy issues. He currently holds a joint appointment at the University of Leeds as Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems in the Schools of Earth and Environment and Chemical and Process Engineering. Peter has acted as advisor to a number of United Nations organisations, the International Energy Agency, the European Commission and various UK government departments. His research is strongly interdisciplinary, combining engineering, economics and policy to explore transitions to sustainable low-carbon energy systems. He contributes to several large national research centres including the UK Energy Research Centre, Energy Demand Research Centre, Supergen Energy Networks Hub, Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre and the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy.

 

Link to University of Leeds Bio

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