Dr David C. BROADSTOCK
Biography
Dr David Broadstock is Senior Research Fellow and Energy Transition Research Lead with Sustainable and Green Finance Institute (SGFIN) housed within the National University of Singapore (NUS). Through these roles David regularly interacts with financial institutions, government agencies, research foundations, policy makers and industry leaders to develop and implement impactful research into the successful deployment of transition finance to support sustainable economic development for Singapore.
David is an economist with around 15 years of experience, most of which in Asia. He has worked within academia, consulting and strategic policy research (thinktanks) and is specialized in the areas of energy and environmental economics, with recent research concentrating on areas of green and sustainable finance. David places a special emphasis in the emerging area of ‘transition finance’, seeking to better appreciate how trust and confidence behind net-zero commitments can be fostered and sustained so as to facilitate an organized, timely and scalable flow of capital to achieve national decarbonization ambitions without sacrificing on economic competitiveness.
As an academic David has published in high level journals spanning accounting, finance, management and economics, and enjoys a healthy citation profile. David is Editor for The Energy Journal, Associate Editor for the Journal of Climate Finance, and sits on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Management, and Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances. David frequently engages with media, and has been interviewed or quoted by Bloomberg News, CNA (TV, radio and online), Reuters, ABC News, BBC News, The Los Angeles Times, Straits Times and CGTV, among others.
Research Focus
- Energy Transition: Understanding the complex nature of energy markets from resource availability, fuel and energy commoditisation, macroeconomic policies and strategies, power sector operations and beyond, and how these shape opportunities and constraints for our energy transition.
- Net-zero (and beyond) transition: The net-zero transition can occur at a different pace compared with the energy transition, and with differing priorities. Questions and around corporate commitments, national will and multilateral agreements require more careful appreciation and consideration.
- Sustainable, Green and Climate Finance: With a view to understanding whether, when and how capital allocation, and market behaviours (real, or financial) are changing in response to the increasingly widespread and mature uptake pre-environmental and pro-social business practices or financing instruments.
- Energy Economics: With a particular orientation towards microeconomic perspectives of economic activity and behaviours, and how energy - demanded indirectly for the energy services we use - functions as a productive asset with good and bad outputs needed to be kept in careful balance.
- Empirical analysis: From the primary disciplinary perspective of econometrics, spanning a diversity of tools time-series, panel-data, discrete-choice and cross-sectional methods typically in the time and/or functional domains of analysis.