Peter Pearson directs the Environmental Policy & Management Research Group at Imperial College London, and is co-director of its Centre for Energy Policy & Technology. His research interests lie in energy/environment transitions and pathways. He headed Surrey University Energy Economics Centre (1989–94) and was Chair (1992, 2002) of the British Institute of Energy Economics. He has served on the editorial boards of Energy Economics, the Energy Journal and Energy Policy, and has acted as a consultant to the World Bank Inspection Panel and the EC.