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About me
Richard Baron is the director of the Industrial Policy & Trade programme since 2015.
He initiated ECF’s trade work in 2020. He has led ECF’s effort on green industrialization since 2024. He joined ECF in 2017 as director of the 2050 Pathways Platform, an initiative to support developing countries in the elaboration of their long-term low-emissions development strategies, as mandated by the UNFCCC Paris Agreement.
Prior to joining the ECF, Richard was a climate policy advisor at the OECD; he co-authored Aligning Policies for a Low-Carbon Economy (2015) and Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth, a report to the German presidency of the G20 (2017). He also managed the Round Table on Sustainable Development, a high-level public-private forum on strategic environmental questions, including the decarbonisation of electricity, stranded assets, public procurement for low-carbon innovation, and corporate reporting.
Before joining the OECD, Richard was the head of climate change at the IEA where his work included international negotiations, carbon market mechanisms, industrial competitiveness and sectoral approaches, and the role of electricity in climate mitigation. He also worked at IDDRI where he developed the climate policy and competitiveness work area, and studied climate policy modelling at Cired, France, and at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Washington DC.