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David Reiner

Director of the MPhil in Technology Policy Programme
Assistant Director of the ESRC Electricity Policy Research Group
University Senior Lecturer in Technology Policy

BSc (McGill Univ.), MA (Princeton Univ.), PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Professional Experience

Dr Reiner is a political scientist and is currently University Senior Lecturer in Technology Policy and Course Director of the MPhil in Technology Policy, a joint offering of Judge Business School and Cambridge University Engineering Department. David has advised government, industry and non-governmental organisations on energy and environmental policy, with a particular emphasis on the politics of climate change and the social acceptability of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technologies. He is frequently interviewed in national and international media including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph.

David is also a research associate of the Centre for International Business and Management at Cambridge, and of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and the Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies Program, both at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He sits on the Judge Business School Research Committee, the EPRG management committee and the steering committee of the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas Programme's Social Research Network. He has testified before the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology and contributed to the World Economic Forum in Davos and Moscow. He is the recipient of research grants from the European Commission, UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, Natural Environment Research Council and the Department of Trade and Industry.

Previous Appointments

Dr Reiner joined Judge Business School from MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and the Laboratory for Energy and Environment. He has also taught in the Political Science Department at Tufts University and the Graduate School of International Studies in Geneva.

Research Interests

National climate change policies; social and political acceptability of carbon capture and storage technologies, international environmental negotiations; policy design; public perceptions of energy technologies, regulatory policy; competition policy; science policy and communicating science and technology.

David Reiner is a member of the Energy & Environment research group and the Operations, Information & Technology teaching group.

Selected Publications

Reiner, D.M., Gibbins, J. and Holloway, S. (2008) Bridging technologies: can carbon capture and storage offer a bridge to a sustainable energy future in the UK? In: Grubb, M., Jamasb, T. and Pollitt, M.G. (eds.) Delivering a low-carbon electricity system. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.414-442

de Coninck, H., Flach, T., Curnow, P., Richardson, P., Anderson, J., Shackley, S., Sigurthorsson, G. and Reiner, D. (2009) "The acceptability of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in Europe: an assessment of the key determining factors: Part 1. Scientific, technical and economic dimensions." International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 3(3): 333-343 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2008.07.009)

Shackley, S., Reiner, D., Upham, P., de Coninck, H., Sigurthorsson, G. and Anderson, J. (2009) "The acceptability of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in Europe: an assessment of the key determining factors: Part 2. The social acceptability of CCS and the wider impacts and repercussions of its implementation." International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 3(3): 344-356 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2008.09.004)

Liang, X., Reiner, D., Gibbins, J., Li, J. (2009) "Assessing the value of CO2 capture ready in new-build pulverised coal-fired power plants in China." International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 3(6): 787-792

Newbery, D., Reiner, D., Jamasb, T., Steinberg, R., Toxvaerd, F. and Noël, P. (2009) Carbon capture and storage (CCS): analysis of incentives and rules in a European repeated game situation. London: UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Johnsson, F., Reiner, D., Itaoka, K. and Herzog, H. (2009) "Stakeholder attitudes on carbon capture and storage - an international comparison." International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control (forthcoming) (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2009.09.006)

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