Mark Jaccard

Mark Jaccard is a Canadian energy economist and author, born in Vancouver on 12 April 1955, who builds and applies models that assess the effects of sustainability policies for energy and materials. He took his doctorate at the Energy Economics and Policy Institute of the University of Grenoble and has been a professor at Simon Fraser University since 1986. He chaired and led the British Columbia Utilities Commission from 1992 to 1997, served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and co-chaired a China Council task force on the sustainable use of coal. He was convening lead author for energy policy in the Global Energy Assessment. His book Sustainable Fossil Fuels won the Donner Prize for the top policy book in Canada in 2005, and he was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009.