Kelly C De Bruin

Kelly is a Senior Research Officer at the ESRI and programme coordinator for the ESRI’s climate research area. Before joining the ESRI in 2018, Kelly worked as an assistant professor  and postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE) at Umea University in Sweden. She completed her PhD at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

Kelly’s research focusses on applied economic modelling of climate change impacts and policies . Her research has focused on the development of Integrated Assessment modelling (IAM) and Computable General Equilibrium modelling (CGE) including topics such as adaptation, uncertainty, economic development, mitigation coalitions, double dividend, and equality.

She has been involved in numerous policy projects on the global scale in collaboration with the OECD, UNEP, UNDP, African Development Bank and Oxfam. In her role at the ESRI, Kelly works on the development and application of the Irish CGE model, the Ireland Environment, Energy and Economy model (I3E). Her work examines the economic and distributional impacts of climate change and climate change policies in Ireland.