Mustafa H. Babiker is an economist with a Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Economics. Mustafa is a principal professional at Saudi Aramco and an active research associate with MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Babiker’s main research interests include energy economics, climate change policies, economic development, and applied computable general equilibrium modeling. Mustafa is an author of a number of publications and a participant in IPCC activities including being a review editor for the 4^th assessment report, a lead author for the 5^th assessment report, and a coordinating lead author for the 6^th assessment report. On climate change economics and policy analysis, Dr. Babiker is an accomplished scholar with contributions widely recognized by the research community and with work appearing in top journals including the journal of International Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Climatic Change, the Energy Journal, Energy Economics, and the journal of Energy Policy.

PhD in Economics,University of Colorado-Boulder,August 1998

Natural resources and environmental economics

Computational Economics

Econometrics

de Coninck, H., A. Revi, M. Babiker, P. Bertoldi, M. Buckeridge, A. Cartwright, W. Dong, J. Ford, S. Fuss, J.-C. Hourcade, D. Ley, R. Mechler, P. Newman, A. Revokatova, S. Schultz, L. Steg, and T. Sugiyama, 2018: Strengthening and Implementing the Global Response. In: Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, H.-O. Pörtner, D. Roberts, J. Skea, P.R. Shukla, A. Pirani, W. Moufouma-Okia, C. Péan, R. Pidcock, S. Connors, J.B.R. Matthews, Y. Chenv, X. Zhou, M.I. Gomis, E. Lonnoy, T. Maycock, M. Tignor, and T. Waterfield (eds.)].

Babiker, M., G. Berndes, K. Blok, B. Cohen, A. Cowie, O. Geden, V. Ginzburg, A. Leip, P. Smith, M. Sugiyama, F. Yamba, 2022: Cross-sectoral perspectives. In IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [P.R. Shukla, J. Skea, R. Slade, A. Al Khourdajie, R. van Diemen, D. McCollum, M. Pathak, S. Some, P. Vyas, R. Fradera, M. Belkacemi, A. Hasija, G. Lisboa, S. Luz, J. Malley, (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA. doi: 10.1017/9781009157926.014

“Co-benefits and trade-offs of climate change mitigation actions and the Sustainable Development Goals,” Sustainable Production and Consumption, 26, 805-813, 2021. (With Cohen, B., Cowie, A., Leip, A., and P. Smith)

“A perspective on decarbonizing mobility: An all-electrification vs. an all-hydrogenization Venue,” Energies,2022, 15, 5440. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15155440. (With Anton Manakhov, Maxim Orlov, and Abdulaziz Al-Qasim)

“Accurately interpreting IPCC assessments,” Science, 9 AUGUST 2024 • VOL 385 ISSUE 6709, 0.1126/science.adp4153. (With Kornelis Blok,  Christopher Bataille, Brett Cohen5, Aleksandra Novikova, Sudarmanto Budi Nugroho, Daniela Anahi Toribio Ramirez8, Stephanie Roe, Masa Sugiyama).