Michael Mehling

Dr. Michael Mehling is Deputy Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Previously, he was a Professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and President of Ecologic Institute in Washington, DC. In his work, he focuses on climate policy design and implementation at the domestic and international level, including its intersections with environmental, energy, financial market, and trade policy. On these topics, he has advised decision makers in over a dozen countries, testified before or briefed legislators in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, and served as an expert in several climate litigation and arbitration cases.

Over the past two decades, 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), and the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST) in Brussels. He also founded and remains Editor-in-Chief of the Carbon & Climate Law Review (CCLR), the first academic quarterly journal focused on climate law and regulation. Currently, he serves on the governance boards of Ecologic Institute in Berlin and Climate Strategies in London, the Scientific Committee of the Enel Foundation in Rome, and the advisory board of the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM) in Berlin.

He also is an Associated Researcher with the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at the University of Cambridge, a non-Residential Fellow with the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) in Helsinki, and an Advisor with the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) at the European University Institute (EUI). Trained as a lawyer – with law degrees from the University of Constance and the Hanseatic High Court of Appeal in Hamburg, as well as postgraduate LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Helsinki – he is a German and American citizen, and has lived for extended periods in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. His personal website and publication list can be accessed at https://sites.mit.edu/mmehling.

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