Michael Mehling

Michael Mehling is Deputy Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. In his work, he focuses on climate policy design and implementation at the intersection with environmental, energy, financial market and trade policy, advising decision makers in over a dozen countries and serving as an expert in climate litigation and arbitration cases. Previously, he was a Professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and President of Ecologic Institute in Washington, DC.

He has helped pioneer several initiatives in the areas of climate law and policy, and is a founding board member of, inter alia, the Blockchain & Climate Institute (BCI) in London, the European Association of Climate Law (EACL) in Berlin, and the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST) in Brussels. He is also founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Carbon & Climate Law Review (CCLR), the first academic journal focused on climate law and regulation.

His publications include a dozen monographs and edited volumes, as well as over 100 book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. He is a frequent commentator on climate policy developments, and has been featured in several mainstream media outlets including The Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. As a German and American citizen, he has lived for extended periods of time in​ Europe, the United States, and Latin America.