Dr Daniel Quiggin
Senior Research Fellow, Environment and Society Programme
Biography
Dr Daniel Quiggin is a senior research fellow with the Environment and Society Programme at Chatham House. He has expertise in the modelling, analysis and forecasting of national and global energy systems, having modelled various UK government energy scenarios and published a UK 2030 energy scenario, commissioned by Greenpeace UK.
As a senior policy adviser at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Daniel led work on the post-Brexit policy implications for the energy sector’s trade of goods and services, and helped shape effective strategies for the energy and climate package of the UK-EU FTA negotiations.
As an analyst at Investec Asset Management, within a commodities and resources investment team, he authored a global renewable energy infrastructure investment white paper.
He holds master’s degrees in particle physics and climate science, and a PhD in energy system modelling.
Past experience
| 2018-20 | Senior policy advisor: UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy |
| 2017-18 | Research fellow, Energy, Environment and Resources Programme, Chatham House |
| 2015-16 | Investec Asset Management |
| 2014-15 | Research Associate, Loughborough University |
| 2011 - | Director, Demand Energy Equality |
| 2010-13 | PhD Researcher in National Energy Scenario Modelling |
| 2009-10 |
MRes Earth System Science |
| 2008-09 |
Particle Physics Researcher, University of Birmingham and ATLAS, CERN |
| 2003-07 | MSci Particle Physics and Cosmology, University of Birmingham |
