Jelte Harnmeijer
Teaching Fellow in Carbon Economics
- School of Economics
- Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation
Contact details
- Email: Jelte.Harnmeijer@ed.ac.uk
Background
Jelte grew up in sub-Saharan Africa, and lived and worked in Australia, Greenland, the Himalayas and the Pacific Northwest before moving to Scotland. He is a systems thinker and practitioner who strongly believes in integrating research with implementation. In this spirit, Jelte specialises in the economics of distributed low-carbon energy systems.
Jelte is a Founding Partner at Scene Connect, an international consultancy that assists communities in meeting their renewable energy development objectives, both on and off the grid You can learn more about Scene and our services here: http://sceneconsulting.com
Jelte is also the T. B. Macaulay Renewables Fellow at the James Hutton Institute, where he focuses on how community renewables can help address pressing challenges such as food and fuel poverty, inequality, and global climate destabilisation.
He holds concurrent fellowships in Carbon Economics and Carbon Finance at the University of Edinburgh, through the Schools of Economics, Business and Geosciences.