Emily Tyler

Expertise: low carbon policy, energy policy, economics, critical complexity, complex systems thinking, transdisciplinarity

Dr Emily Tyler is a leading expert in energy and climate policy and strategy in developmental contexts. She brings a lens of complexity and systems thinking together with her disciplinary grounding in economics, finance and political economy to the complex challenges she encounters in this space.

Emily has over 20 years of professional experience in topics spanning carbon pricing and budgeting, climate finance, power sector modelling, policy instruments, corporate and investor carbon strategies, the international climate policy regime and low carbon transition planning. Finding the interplay between practice and reflection particularly rich, Emily has worked to retain both her consulting and academic presence throughout her career. She is currently working with the team at Meridian Economics, a Cape Town based think tank in the energy and climate space, and holds an Honorary Research Associate position at the University of Cape Town's African Climate and Development Institute. Emily is frequently engaged in transdisciplinary research initiatives relating to her field and publishes regularly in both domestic and international journals.