About IPPR

Matthew Lockwood

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Matthew Lockwood
Associate Director
020 7470 6116
m.lockwood@ippr.org

Teams
Global Change

Areas of Expertise

Climate and energy policy
International development

Press experience

Print: Times, Independent, Telegraph, Guardian, Prospect, Tribune, Whitehall and Westminster World, Public Sector Review, Energy Focus, PPR, Climate Policy, Political Quarterly.

Broadcast: Channel 4 News, BBC News, BBC World, BBC Radio 4 (Today, You and Yours, Women’s Hour), Radio 5Live, BBC World Service, extensive local radio.

Previous work

Matthew has over 20 years' experience of global development issues with a focus on Africa. He studied at the University of Oxford, where he took M.Phil in economics in 1984 and a D.Phil in 1989. He was then a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex, before moving into the NGO sector.

From 1997 to 2000 he was Head of International Policy at Christian Aid, and was Head of UK Advocacy at Actionaid between 2002 and 2004. He has also worked for Save the Children UK and for the Department for International Development. Between 1998 and 2004 he sat on the policy committee of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford. In 2005 he published an influential critique of conventional Government and NGO thinking on Africa, The State They’re In (June 2005, 2nd edn October 2006, ITDG Publishing).

In 2004 Matthew started working on climate change policy. Before joining ippr in 2006, he was an advisor on climate change to the then Deputy Mayor of London, Nicky Gavron, and worked for the London Climate Change Agency. At ippr he has worked extensively on UK and European climate and energy policies, leading major projects on how the UK can decarbonise by 80% by 2050, on policy for coal-fired power generation and on personal carbon trading. In 2009-2010 Matthew was on secondment to the Department for Energy and Climate Change working on smart grids policy.

He has a major interest in the politics of climate policy. In 2007 he led a project for the Sustainable Development Commission on the us of public engagement to creatre 'political space' for climate policy, and in 2009 undertook the first test of the efficacy of framing climate policy in different ways, through a survey in 157 marginal constituencies in a project funded by the European Climate Foundation. he has published recent pieces on the politics of climate policy in PPR and Political Quarterly.

Matthew also has an interest in low carbon innovation policy, and the role of innovation more widely in the economy. He is currently working on ippr's New Era Economics programme.

Other publications

2010

“The economics of personal carbon trading: a review” Climate Policy 10, 4

“A tale of two Milibands: From environmental citizenship to the politics of the common good” Political Quarterly 81, 4

2009

Plan B? The prospects for personal carbon trading (with Jenny Bird) ippr: London (forthcoming)

Green Streets: Final report to British Gas ippr: London

‘Escaping climate policy Groundhog Day” (with Andrew Pendleton) PPR February 2009

‘Decarbonising European power generation: the evolving policy landscape’, Energy Focus 12, Spring 2009

‘Climate of opinion on energy policy has changed for the better’ Tribune 1 May 2009

2008

After the coal rush – Assessing policy options for coal-fired electricity generation ippr: London

“New coal build and the EU emissions trading scheme” in A Last Chance for Coal: Making Carbon Capture and Storage a Reality Green Alliance

2007

2050 Vision: How can the UK play its part in avoiding dangerous climate change? (with Jenny Bird and Raquel Alvarez) ippr: London

80% Challenge: Delivering a low-carbon UK (ippr with WWF and RSPB)

‘Climate change and progress’ Tiedepolitiikka December 2007

‘Cooler cities’ Prospect November 2007

‘Muddling through’ - Review of the Energy White Paper for Whitehall and Westminster World, July 2007

Engagement and political space for policies on climate change (with Miranda Lewis, Naomi Newman and Ruth Sheldon ) Sustainable Development Commission: London

‘Rough guide to carbon trading’ Prospect February 2007

2006

The Mayor of London’s Submission to the Energy Review (with Lucy Padfield) GLA: London

2005

Designing for a Changing Climate (with Robin Murray) Design Council: London

‘States of development’ Prospect November 2005

The State They’re In (June 2005, 2nd edn October 2006, ITDG Publishing).

‘Trade, aid and the state: What stops Africa following East Asia?’ in Aid and Trade: Partners or Rivals in Development? Ed. S. Page