Jos Sijm holds a Ph D in development economics from the Tinbergen Institute (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1997). Since 1999, he has been employed as a scientific researcher at the department Policy Studies of the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN). He has been actively involved in a variety of research projects, either as a project leader or economic expert, dealing with energy and climate policy issues such as the burden sharing of future mitigation commitments and the implementation of the Kyoto mechanisms. He has been one of the experts leading the EU-funded project Interaction in EU Climate Policy (INTERACT), which has analysed the potential interactions between the proposed EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and existing Member States’ energy and climate policies. In addition, he has been the leader of several other projects on the EU ETS, notably on its implications for power prices in EU countries.

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Jos Sijm