Richard Baron

Richard Baron manages the OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development, a high-level public-private forum to foster progress on pressing environmental questions. In this role, his work areas include renewable energy, corporate reporting, international competitiveness and co-operation in climate policy, and industrial innovation in the low-carbon transition.

In 2014-15 he has coordinated the project Aligning Policies for a Low-carbon Economy in co-operation with the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Transport Forum and the Nuclear Energy Agency, for the 2015 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting.

Prior to his position at the OECD, Richard was the head of climate change at the IEA where his work included UNFCCC negotiations, carbon market mechanisms, industrial competitiveness and sectoral approaches, and the role of electricity in decarbonisation.

Mr. Baron has been working on the linkages between climate change and energy policy since 1989. Prior to his positions at IEA and OECD, he worked in France at Cired (an economics research centre focused on energy and environment issues) and Iddri (International institute on sustainable development and international relations, a Paris-based think-tank), and in the USA at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest Laboratory. He is member of the Economic Council for Sustainable Development, an advisory group to the French Minister for ecology, sustainable development and energy. He authored several books, reports and papers on climate and energy policy.

Mr. Baron authored several books and numerous papers in the area of climate and energy policy interactions. He holds a management degree from Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC, France) and an advanced degree in theoretical and applied economics from DELTA (Paris School of Economics).