Thomas L. Brewer

Prof. Thomas L. Brewer is on the faculty of the Georgetown University School of Business in Washington, DC. His publications on climate change issues include five articles in the refereed journal, Climate Policy, as well as chapters in books published by Cambridge University and The Brookings Institution, Elsevier and Routledge. He is the symposium editor for a forthcoming special issue of the refereed journal The World Economy, on issues at the intersection of trade and climate change.

He has made presentations on climate change issues at conferences at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Tokyo, the European Union Commission and Parliament, COP/MOP climate change conferences, and numerous other venues. He has also published articles on international trade and investment issues in refereed journals and in the Oxford Handbook of International Business.

He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels and US Special Advisor for Climate Strategies in Cambridge, UK.

This research has two principal focal topics: Firstly, international competitiveness issues posed by an international economic environment with different carbon prices emerging from different climate policies, including comparative research on the EU and the US. Secondly, international transfers of climate friendly technologies. This work includes the international trade, investment and technology transfer practices of multinational firms and the government policies that encourage or inhibit them.