Matthew Lockwood is a Senior Lecturer in Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School. From 2012 to 2018 he was a Senior Research Fellow working on the EPSRC-funded IGov project and a member of the Energy Policy Group at the University of Exeter.
Matthew led a research project on the politics of UK and European energy policy interactions in Phase 3 of UKERC. Previously he was Head of Climate Change at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex (2011-2012) and at the Institute for Public Policy Research (2006-2011), where he was latterly Associate Director of Energy, Climate Change and Transport. He has also worked as an adviser in the period 2004-2006 to the London Development Agency and the Deputy Mayor of London, and in the Department for Energy and Climate Change on secondment in 2009-2010. Matthew has also worked in senior policy roles in several international development NGOs, and prior to that as a sociologist at the University of Sussex and at Cambridge University. He was educated at Oxford University, where he took an MPhil in Economics and a DPhil.