Gordon Mackerron serves as Director of Science and Technology Policy Research at University of Sussex. He served as Director of Sussex Energy Group, SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex since April 2005, following four years as Associate Director, NERA Economic Consulting, London and an earlier career for over 20 years at SPRU. He is an economist specializing in energy and environmental economics, with degrees in economics from the Universities of Cambridge and Sussex. His academic career has specialized in the economics and policy issues of electricity and especially nuclear power, in which he has published and broadcast widely.