“Mark is an indispensable source of insight on the economics of energy and the environment,” commented Robson.
April 10, 2017 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of Mark Jaccard, Professor, Simon Fraser University, as a Research Fellow.
“Mark is an indispensable source of insight on the economics of energy and the environment,” commented Robson. “The C.D. Howe Institute looks forward to continued collaboration in support of more efficient and effective policies in these areas.”
His most recent Institute report, co-authored with Nic Rivers, Chris Bataille and Jotham Peters is titled, “Taxing Emissions, Not Income: How to Moderate the Regional Impact of Federal Environment Policy.”
Since 1986, Mark has been a professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University. The only exception is 1992 to 1997, when he took a leave of absence to serve as Chair and CEO of the British Columbia Utilities Commission.
Mark earned his PhD from the Energy Economics and Policy Institute at the University of Grenoble. He has published over 100 academic papers, most of these related to his principal research focus: the design and application of energy-economy models that assess the effectiveness of sustainable energy and climate policies. For this career research, he was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009 and British Columbia’s Academic of the Year in 2008. He has contributed to several major environmental processes and assessments. In 2006, his book, Sustainable Fossil Fuels, won the Donner Prize for top policy book in Canada.
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