Tom Moerenhout

GRM 2018 Workshop: A Debate on Economic Sustainability: In the GCC and Elsewhere

PhD candidate - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Tom Moerenhout is a researcher at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has worked as visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Political Sciences Department and Center on Global Energy Policy (2015-2016), and as Saudi-Aramco fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (2016-2017). Professionally, Tom has worked for the Global Subsidies Initiative of the International Institute for Sustainable Development since 2010. Most recently, he has contributed to in-country energy subsidy reform programs in Egypt, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan and India. He has cooperated with various organizations such as World Bank (ESMAP), OECD, OPEC, UNEP and IRENA. His research is predominantly on the political economy of subsidy and taxation reforms in a context of sustainable development and with an emphasis on energy. At the moment, Tom’s research is on (1) a large comparative analysis of energy subsidy reform episodes, (2) perceptions on taxation and (gasoline) subsidy reform in Nigeria (for the Tax Commission of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group), and (3) commercial and industrial interests in the context of electricity pricing reform in Uttar Pradesh, India.