Alex Bowen

Principal Research Fellow

Alex is based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is also Principal Research Fellow of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment|.

Background

Before joining LSE, Alex worked at the Bank of England, most recently as a Senior Policy Adviser.

Alex's research interests were stimulated by his year on sabbatical, spent contributing to 'The Economics of Climate Change: the Stern Review' as a senior economic adviser. 

Alex graduated in economics from Clare College, Cambridge, and received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied as a Kennedy Scholar.

Research interests

• The macroeconomic aspects of climate change;
• The design of policy regimes for tackling harmful climate change.

Media articles

2012

Green’ growth, ‘green’ jobs and labor markets|
Alex Bowen, World Bank (blog), 16 April

Putting the case forward
|Alex Bowen, Carbon Trading (March issue; pages 34-35), 28 February

2011

Green growth: paradigm shift or just spin?
|Alex Bowen and Sam Fankhauser, CDKN Global, 26 August

Climate pragmatism or climate illusion?
|Bob Ward and Alex Bowen, Huffington Post, 3 August

2010

Temperature goals heat China climate talks|
Nicola Ranger and Alex Bowen, The Guardian, 5 October

Still wary of Bjørn Lomborg's pronouncements on climate change|
Dr Alex Bowen, Dr Simon Dietz, Dimitri Zenghelis and Bob Ward, The Guardian (letter), 2 September

2009

Tiny steps in a marathon|
Nicholas Stern, Alex Bowen and Sam Fankhauser, The Guardian, 24 April

Opportunities that are too good to miss|
Nicholas Stern and Alex Bowen, The Guardian, 24 February  

Policy articles

2011

Bowen, A. December 2011. The case for carbon pricing. Policy brief, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of brief| (855KB)

Bowen, A., and Rydge, J. August 2011. Climate change policy in the United Kingdom. Policy brief, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper| (1.25MB)

2010

Ranger, N., Gohar, L., Lowe, J., Bowen, A., and Ward, R. August 2010. Mitigating climate change through reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: is it possible to limit global warming to no more than 1.5°C? Policy brief, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of brief| (687KB)

2009

Bowen, A., and Ranger, A. December 2009. Mitigating climate change through reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: the science and economics of future paths for global annual emissions. Policy brief, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of brief |(1.09MB)

Bowen, A., Fankhauser, S., Stern, N., and Zenghelis, D. February 2009. An Outline of the Case for a 'Green' Stimulus. Policy brief, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of brief| (1.38MB)

Research articles

2012

Bowen, A. April 2012. ‘Green’ growth, ‘green’ jobs and labour markets. Working Paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. Download PDF of paper| (502KB)

2011

Bowen, A., and Fankhauser, S. October 2011. The green growth narrative: paradigm shift or just spin? Global Environmental Change, v.21, pp.1157-1159. External link to full article|

Bowen, A. Raising finance to support developing country action: some economic considerations. 

• Unpublished paper: January 2011. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper (331KB)
• Published paper: June 2011.  Climate Policy, v.11, pp.1020-1036. June 2011. External link to full article

2010

Bowen, A., and Stern, N. January 2010. Environment policy and the eonomic downturn. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper |(512KB)

2009

Bauer, N., Bowen, A., Brunner, S, Edenhofer, O., Flachsland, C., Jakob, M., and Stern, N. April 2009. Towards a global green recovery: recommendations for immediate G20 action. Download PDF of document| (1.58MB)