Michael Pollitt
Professor of Business Economics, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Professor Michael Pollitt is a member of the editorial boards ofThe Energy Journal, Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy, Review of Industrial Organization, Competition and Regulation in Network Industries and Utilities Policy. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research. He is currently a member of Ofwat’s Water 2020 advisory board. He is also a Joint Academic Director at the CERRE Centre on Regulation in Europe. Since 2000 he has been convenor of the Association of Christian Economists, U.K.

Pollitt has advised the U.K. Competition Commission, the New Zealand Commerce Commission, Ofgem, Ofwat, ESRC, the Norwegian Research Council, the DTI, the World Bank and the European Commission. He has also consulted for National Grid, AWG, EdF, Eneco, Nuon, Roche and TenneT. He is the Coach on the Cambridge MBA’s Energy & Environment concentration, and the University’s Energy Lead for Policy, Economics and Risk. He is Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group, and a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network.

Before coming to Cambridge Judge Business School, Pollitt was a lecturer in applied industrial organisation at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, from 1994-1999. He was a board member and trustee of Viva Network, Oxford, from 1999-2004. In the first half of 2003 Pollitt was a visiting associate professor in the Department of Economics at MIT. From 2001-2005 he was co-leader of the Cambridge-MIT Electricity Project.

In 2005 and 2006 Pollitt served as acting executive director of the ESRC Energy Policy Research Group. In 2009 and 2010 he was a member of the New Zealand Commerce Commission’s expert panel on Input Methodologies. From 2007-2011 he served as external economic advisor to Ofgem, and from 2011-2014 he was an energy advisor to the U.K. Consumers’ Association.

His research interests include Industrial economics; privatisation and regulation of utilities especially in electricity; the measurement of productive efficiency; the relationship between Christian ethics and best practice business behaviour.