Mr Tom Youngman

• Qualifications:MSc Economics, SOAS University of London; BA European Social and Political Studies, UCL
• Position:Research Fellow in Sustainable Food Economics and Associate Lecturer in Economics
• Department:FBL - Accounting, Economics and Finance School of Applied Sciences
• Email:Tom.Youngman@uwe.ac.uk
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About me

I teach microeconomics and supervise dissertations on UWE's Economics degrees. I am particularly keen to supervise dissertations that engage with community groups, campaigns and arts organisations.

I also work with the UKRI Agrifood for Net Zero Network+: agrifood4netzero.net. I am part of a team developing a participatory model of the future of the UK food and land system. I am particular keen to foster exchange of insights between agricultural economics and food systems science.

I spend most of my time as a doctoral researcher at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford. I research how agent-based macroeconomic models can be used to assess the distributional impact of climate mitigation policies.

I came to my current roles from the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. I worked in a range of policy and economics roles, most recently leading Defra's Net Zero Economics team. I regularly briefed Ministers and senior officials and I have represented the UK on working groups at the OECD, EU and WTO. Prior to working at Defra I worked at Prudential, Ecooo and Triodos Bank. When I'm not thinking about the economy you can find me at a gig, riding my bike, kitesurfing or holding a placard at a picket line.

Area of expertise

ecological economics, agricultural economics, climate change, food, international trade, UK government and policy

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