Paul Burke is a Professor and Head of the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. His research areas are energy economics, environmental economics, transport economics, and development economics, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific.

Paul has published in journals including the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Economic Inquiry, Nature Geoscience, Nature Climate Change, Energy, and Global Environmental Change. His ongoing research topics include electric vehicle adoption, residential electrification, small hydropower in Indonesia, and adaptation responses to extreme temperatures in China. His publications are listed here.

Paul is a project convenor in the Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific Grand Challenge project at ANU and leads the Energy Economics and Policy research cluster of the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions. He is on the Executive Committee for the Australasian Development Economics Workshop.

Paul has been chair for 4 PhD graduates and a panel member for another 16. In 2022 he is teaching IDEC8029 Issues in Applied Microeconomics and IDEC8053 Environmental Economics.

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