CSaP

Director General for International Climate Change & Energy Efficiency, Department of Energy and Climate Change

Policy Fellow of the Centre for Science and Policy

Phil Wynn Owen is Director General for International Climate Change & Energy Efficiency at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Reporting directly to the Permanent Secretary of DECC, Phil heads up the team responsible for encouraging the transition to a low-carbon economy. Before joining DECC, Phil was Director General for Strategy, Information and Pensions in the Department for Work and Pensions, responsible for Department-wide strategy and strategic policy development in Government pensions policy; earlier still he was the Director responsible for the Financial Sector in the Treasury, and before that the Director of the Regulatory Impact Unit in the Cabinet Office. Phil has an MBA from London Business School, and recently completed the Advanced Management Programme (AMP) at Harvard.

Phil’s interests as a Policy Fellow lie in understanding the relevance and impact of the latest research in business economics, climate change economics and behavioural economics.