Dr Peter Mallaburn

Peter’s research focuses on how government policy interacts with people and technology markets, and particularly why successful policies work and why unsuccessful ones don’t. Most recently, on secondment to DESNZ, Peter looked at what the UK government could learn from overseas energy agencies to inform the design of the new Warm Homes Agency. Peter also ran an IEA Technology Collaboration Partnership on accelerating the deployment of large heat pumps in commercial buildings.
Prior to joining the ECI Peter was a Principal Research Fellow and Director of Policy and Governance at the UCL Energy Institute and Reader in Climate Policy at De Montford University. Peter was also Head of Government Affairs for UKRI’s CREDS programme.
Before taking up an academic career Peter was a civil servant working on a range of environmental areas: acid rain, urban air pollution and health, climate prediction and latterly setting up the Carbon Trust. Peter was also the founding CEO of Salix Finance, the government’s NDPB supporting energy efficiency investment by public sector organisations.
Peter has a PhD in arid land plant physiology from UCL and an undergraduate degree in biological sciences from Birkbeck College, University of London.