Regina Betz

Prof. Dr. Regina Betz is Head of the Center for Energy and the Environment (CEE) at the School of Management and Law of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). Before joining ZHAW she was Joint Director at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM) at the UNSW Sydney. Regina’s teaching and research interests include energy and climate economics. She also contributes to master courses and consults to industry and government clients in these areas. She has been called to appear as an expert witness in climate change issues at various Federal government enquiries and was the co-president of the National Research Programme on “Sustainable economy” of the Swiss National Research Foundation (SNF). Today her research is mainly focusing on the design of climate and energy policies such as emissions trading schemes, carbon taxes or renewable/energy efficiency policies as well as electricity markets applying experimental economics or empirical methods. She has also been the president of the Swiss Association of Energy Economics (SAEE) 2018-2024, is member of the energy commission of the Swiss academies as well as the Federal accompany group Agenda 2030, the management board member of Go for impact, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Atmosfair and Co-coordinator of the SWEET ReFuel.ch Project.