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Tom Youngman

I lead the MacroCB7 project at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at the University of Oxford where I am also a doctoral researcher. My work uses agent-based macroeconomic models to understand the macroeconomic and distributional impacts of climate mitigation strategies.


🌱 Research Interests

  • Agent-Based Macroeconomic Modeling
  • Climate Mitigation Policy
  • Distributional Impacts of Environmental Policy
  • Ecological Economics

💼 Professional Experience

  • INET, University of Oxford
    Doctoral Researcher in macroeconomics and climate policy

  • University of the West of England
    Research Fellow in Sustainable Food Economics; Associate Lecturer in Economics

  • Defra, UK Government (2018 - 2024)
    Head of Net Zero Economics, among other roles


📜 Selected Publications

"Land data and digital tools for Net Zero, nature and society"

  • *Report on how digital initiative can support environmental goals, informing England's Land Use Framework
  • Authors: Tom Youngman, Holly Chalmers

"Complexity economics insights for the Seventh Carbon Budget"

  • Policy briefing submitted to UK Parliamentary Inquiry, Dec 2025
  • Authors: Tom Youngman, Peter Barbrook-Johnson, Emilien Ravigné, Brendon Tankwa, J. Doyne Farmer

"Can diet change meet climate targets?"

  • Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society, Apr 2022
  • Authors: Alec Jacobs, Tom Youngman

"Housing is not a crime: Madrid’s post-crisis squatters’ movement tell our story through activist research"

  • Radical Housing Journal, May 2021
  • Authors: Tom Youngman, Laura Barrio

🔧 Skills & Tools

  • Economic Modeling: Stock-Flow Consistent, Partial Equilibrium and Agent-Based Models
  • Programming: Python, R
  • Communication: Policy Briefing, Ministerial Reports, Public Speaking
  • Research: Academic Writing, Qualitative & Quantitative Research

🌍 University profiles

https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/people/tom-youngman


📫 Contact

thomas.youngman@inet.ox.ac.uk


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