Peter Birch Sørensen

I am a Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen where I do teaching and research in the areas of Environmental Economics, Public Economics and Macroeconomics.

I am an International Research Fellow in the CESifo research network, a member of the Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters and a former Director of the Economic Policy Research Unit, supported by a grant from the Danish National Research Foundation in the period 1993-2005.

From 2004 through 2009 I was Head Chairman of the Danish Economic Council, and from 2007 through 2009 I also chaired the Danish Environmental Economic Council. From 2012 to 2014 I served as chairman of the Danish Productivity Commission, and from 2014 through 2018 I was chairman of the Danish Council on Climate Change.

I have served on several international public policy committees and have acted as a consultant on tax policy to the OECD, the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and several national governments. In 2021-2022 I was a member of the Norwegian government's tax reform committee, and in 2021-2024 I was a member of the Danish government Expert Group on Green Tax Reform.