Dr Thomas Longden is a Fellow working on the ANU Energy Change Institutes Grand Challenge Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific, at the Crawford School of Public Policy. His main areas of research interest are applied econometrics, environmental economics, energy economics and health economics. Dr Longden was a Contributing Author on the AR5 WGIII Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report titled Mitigation of Climate Change. Before joining ANU in 2019, Dr Longden was based at UTS, Macquarie University, the University of Sydney, and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in Milan, Italy.