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Biography

Dr Pia Andres is an Assistant Professor at Durham University, Law School and Economics Department, and an Associate of the Growth Programme and the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion at the CEP. Her research studies the technological shift towards a low carbon and increasingly digital economy and the challenges involved in making these transitions just and inclusive. She completed her PhD in Environmental Economics at LSE in 2024.

Current areas of research include:

Innovation and trade in clean technology
Clean innovation and employment
AI and clean technology
Remote work and compensation practices
Regulation and the economic geography of AI innovation

Publications

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

How China’s rise has shaped innovation and exit among European solar firms

Should policymakers protect European firms by restricting imports of solar technology from China? Pia Andres finds that Chinese competition has resulted in many European firms going out of business, but it has also promp... Read more...

Pia Andres

20 February 2025

Blog

Redirecting AI: Privacy regulation and the future of artificial intelligence

Some artificial intelligence technologies are more data intensive than others. This column examines how data privacy regulation shaped the trajectory of AI innovation across countries, looking at patent applications from... Read more...

Pia Andres, Carl Benedikt Frey and Giorgio Presidente

05 January 2025

CEP reports

The green industrial policy matrix: Informing an industrial strategy for clean energy technologies

This paper presents new evidence to inform industrial strategy prioritisation of clean energy technologies in the UK. It focuses on seven technology categories relevant for reducing emissions across power, heat and indus... Read more...

Pia Andres, Ralf Martin, Maxwell Read, Esin Serin, Arjun Shah and Anna Valero

25 November 2024

Blog

How China's rise has shaped innovation and exit among Europe's solar firms

Should the EU protect European firms by restricting imports of solar technology from China? Drawing on new research, Pia Andres finds that Chinese competition has resulted in many European firms going out of business, bu... Read more...

Pia Andres

14 October 2024

Blog

Harnessing the UK's strengths for green growth

Esin Serin and Pia Andres set out evidence on the UK's sectoral and technological strengths to assist policymakers as they consider how to allocate support across the economy in a way that maximises green growth opportun... Read more...

Pia Andres and Esin Serin

14 August 2024

CEP reports

Seizing sustainable growth opportunities from tidal stream energy in the UK

This is the decade for managing the immense risks of climate change, and delivery on net zero. That means rapidly increasing the share of renewable sources in our energy mix alongside a step-change in energy and resource... Read more...

Pia Andres, Ralf Martin, Esin Serin, Arjun Shah and Anna Valero

22 June 2023

CEP reports

Seizing sustainable growth opportunities from carbon capture, usage and storage in the UK

Seizing opportunities from the CCUS value chain can be part of an economy-wide, net-zero-aligned growth path in the UK. The UK has responded to the climate emergency facing the world with an economy-wide target to reach... Read more...

Pia Andres, Ralf Martin, Penny Mealy, Esin Serin, Arjun Shah and Anna Valero

22 September 2021

CEP Covid-19 analyses

Jobs for a strong and sustainable recovery from Covid-19

The UK's future economic, social and environmental prosperity will be shaped by how it deals with, and recovers from, the impact of Covid-19. This paper sets out coordinated net-zero-aligned investments which the UK can ... Read more...

Pia Andres, Giorgia Cecchinato, Penny Mealy, Charlotte Taylor, Sam Unsworth and Anna Valero

19 October 2020