Frank Jotzo, Dipl-VWL (Berlin), MEcDev (ANU), PhD (ANU)
Research Fellow, Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program and The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics

Email: frank.jotzo [at] anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

Frank Jotzo is an environmental and resource economist specialising in the economics and policy of climate change. He has worked and published on these topics and other aspects of international and development economics since 1998. His regional specialisation is Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, in particular Indonesia. He has worked and consulted for several governments and international organisations.

Research Interests

Development and environment, international climate policy, economic mechanisms for greenhouse gas control, and adaptation to climate change, resource and environmental management in Indonesia and other countries of the Asia-Pacific. Frank is deputy director of the ANU Climate Change Institute and theme leader climate change under the Environmental Economics Research Hub.

Key Publications

• (with R. Garnaut and S. Howes) Emissions in the Platinum Age: the implications of rapid development for climate change mitigation. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 24, pp. 377-401, 2008.
• (with J. Pezzey and J. Quiggin) Fiddling While Carbon Burns: Why Climate Policy Needs Pervasive Emission Pricing as well as Technology Promotion. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 52(1): 97-110, 2008.
• Climate Policy: Where to and How. Agenda 14(1): 17-34, 2007.
• (with J. Pezzey) Optimal Intensity Targets for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading under Uncertainty, Environmental and Resource Economics, 38(2): 259-284, 2008.
• (with D. Narjoko) Survey of Recent Developments. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 43(2): 143-169, 2007.
• (with T. Levantis and V. Tulpulé) Sweetening the Transition in EU Sugar Preferences: The Case of Fiji. The World Economy 28(6): 893-916, 2005.
• (with A. Michaelowa) Estimating the CDM Market under the Marrakech Accords. Climate Policy 2(2/3): 179-201, 2002.

Career Highlights

Economic Adviser to Garnaut Climate Change Review (2008); Consultant to World Bank (2007-09); Researcher for Stanford University project (2003-04); Research Economist with ABARE (1998-2003); work with economics and environment think tanks in Indonesia and Germany (2000-05).