Professor Laura Díaz Anadón

Professor Laura Díaz Anadón holds the Chaired Professorship of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge, where she also directs the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG). She is along-standing affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Visiting Scholar in 2021-2022 and an Assistant Professor between 2013-2016. At Cambridge, she also serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of Cambridge Enterprise Ltd.

Among other science and policy leadership roles, Prof. Diaz Anadon is a Lead Author in the ongoing 7th Assessment Report (AR) of the Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change (IPCC), contributing to Working Group III on Climate Change Mitigation—a role she also held during the 6th Assessment Report. In March 2026, she began her second term on the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC) and was elected shortly after as Vice-Chair, having been a founding member and twice elected Vice-Chair during her first term. That same month, UK Ministers and the Devolved Governments appointed her to the UK Committee of Climate Change (CCC). She has previously served on the Economics of Decarbonization Advisory Group for the UK Treasury's Net Zero Review and on the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Independent Commission on Climate.

Professor Díaz Anadón has received multiple awards for her research, including the XVII Fundación Banco Sabadell Prize for Economic Research for the best young Spanish economics researcher, a Distinguished Visiting Professorship from Tsinghua University and a Senior Keynes Fellowship from the JM Keynes Fellowship Fund.

Professor Díaz Anadón holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a master's in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a master's in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester, including a Diplomarbeit at the University of Stüttgart, and has also done research in industry and worked as a financial consultant for banks on credit risk models.

Professor Díaz Anadón teaches, among other topics, on environmental economics, econometrics, energy, innovation and climate policy, and research methods. She teaches in Paper 4 on ‘Land, Development and Sustainability’, a core Part IA paper in the Environment, Law, and Economics Tripos. She also leads an MPhil elective on ‘Energy & Climate’ (EP06) and teaches in the core course on ‘Environmental Economics and Policy’ (EP02). She supervises Environment, Law, and Economics Tripos and MPhil dissertations and leads seminars as part of the PhD programme.