Dr. Viet Nguyen-Tien is a Research Officer at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) within  the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), contributing to the Growth Programme, the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), and the Productive and Inclusive Net Zero Research Project (PRINZ).

As an applied economist, he explores economic and political issues related to technology, the environment, and energy. His research has been published in reputed journals including Nature Energy, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Energy Economics, World Economy, Applied Energy, and Journal of Hydrology. His contributions have been cited by influential organizations, such as the World Bank, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the US Congressional Research Service, the European Parliamentary Research Service, the Labour Party, the Net Zero Review Chair, and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.

His research and policy work have also been featured in over 200 media outlets worldwide, including the Financial Times, The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, GB News, Daily Mail, Telegraph, LSE News, LSE British Politics and Policy, LSE Business Review, and CentrePiece.

His current research focuses on the economics of clean energy and digital technologies in the twin transitions. Technologies such as electric vehicles, energy storage, renewable energy, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing offer opportunities to enhance productivity, combat climate change, and improve quality of life. However, they also present challenges such as uneven adoption, supply chain disruptions,  industrial waste burdens and labour market shifts, which require an interdisciplinary approach to address effectively.

Before joining CEP, he was a Faraday Institution Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He holds a PhD in Economics (2019) and an MSc in International Economics (2015) from the University of Birmingham.

Research Interests:

• Digital Technologies, Innovation, and Productivity

• Low-carbon Technologies, Resource Security, Circular Economy, and Green Growth

• Climate, Water Resources, Energy, and Development

• Natural Disasters and Voting Behavior

Publications

• ‘The closing longevity gap between battery electric vehicles and internal combustion vehicles in Great Britain' (2025), Nature Energy (with  Zhang, C., Strobl, E., Tveit, T., Elliott, R.), [Open Access]  [LSE News] .

Covered by  GB News, The Guardian, Telegraph, Daily Mail,  LSE News, The National News, Auto Express, The Engineer, The University Network,  Singularity Hub, Clean Technica, Space Daily and 200+ others.

Related interview on VTV4 about the Low Emission Zone policy for Hanoi.  

• ‘The new wave? The role of human capital and STEM skills in technology adoption in the UK' (2024), CEP Discussion Paper, 2040 (with Draca, M, Nathan, M, Oleivera, J., Rosso, A., Valero, A.) [Paper] [POID] [Slides].

• ‘Natural Disasters and Voting Behavior: Evidence from Environmental Legislation in the US Senate’ (2023), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 10 (3), (with Elliott, R., Strobl, E., Tveit, T. ) [Paper].

• ‘The electric vehicle revolution: Critical material supply chains, trade and development’ (2023), The World Economy, 46 (1), 1– 16, (with Jones, B.,  Elliott, R. (2023), [Open Access].

• ‘Breaking it down: A techno-economic assessment of the impact of battery pack design on disassembly costs’ (2023), Applied Energy, 331, 120437, (with Lander, L., Tagnon, C., Nguyen-Tien, V. Kendrick, E., Elliott, R., Abbott, A. , Edge, J., Offer, G.) [Open Access].

• ‘Optimising the Geospatial Configuration of a Future Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Industry in the Transition to Electric Vehicles and a Circular Economy’ (2021), Applied Energy 321 119230, (with Dai, Q., Harper, G., Paul, A., Elliott, R. ). [Open Access] [Slides].

Referenced by Institute for Public Policy Research, Government of Indonesia.

• ‘Power Outages and Firm Performance: A Hydro-IV Approach for a Single Electricity Grid’, (2021) Energy Economics 103, 105571, (with Elliott, R., Nguyen-Tien, V., Strobl, E.) [Paper] [Request a copy].

Referenced by World Bank.

• ‘Financial Viability of Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling’ (2021), iScience 24, 102787, (with Lander, L., Cleaver, T., Rajaeifar, M., Elliott, R., Heidrich, O., Kendrick, E., Edge, J., Offer, G.),. [Open Access].

Referenced by International Energy Agency,  Federal Government of Germany, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations , the US's International Council of Clean Transportation.

• ‘The Electric Vehicles Revolution: The Road ahead for Critical Raw Materials Demand’, Applied Energy 280 (with Jones, B., Elliott, R.) [Open Access] [Blog].

Referenced by  the UK Government, the US Congressional Research Service, European Parliament Committees, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.

• ‘Hydropower generation, flood control and dam cascades: A national assessment for Vietnam’ (2018), Journal of Hydrology 560, 109–126, (with Elliott, R. and Strobl, E. A.). [Paper] [Free version].

Policy Work

• ‘Are ‘green’ jobs good jobs? How lessons from the experience to-date can inform labour market transitions of the future’  (2021).  London: Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science (with Valero, A., Li, J., Muller, S., Riom, C., Nguyen-Tien, V. and Draca, M.) [Report].

• ‘Growing clean : Identifying and investing in sustainable growth opportunities across the UK’ (2022),  The Resolution Foundation, (with Curran, B., Martin, R., Muller, S., Nguyen-Tien, V., Oliveira-Cunha, J., Serin, E., Shah, A., Valero, A. & Verhoeven, D.) [Report]. 

Covered by Financial Times, The Times, Independent; Referenced at the Labour Party's Industrial Strategy and Mission Zero Review

• ‘Economic Growth Goes ‘Fractal’: The Changing Structure of the UK’s High-Growth Economy’ (2022) (with Draca, M., Nathan, M., Sivropoulos-Valero, A., Zhang, S., Rosso, A., Oliveira-Cunha, J.). [Slides]

• ‘The Empirics of ‘Blitzscaling’: technology and high-growth firms in the UK’ (2021) (with Draca, M., Nathan, M., Sivropoulos-Valero, A., Zhang, S., Rosso, A., Oliveira-Cunha, J.). [POID]

Blogs

• 'Tarriffs, automation and inequality: why US jobs won't return but developing countries will still lose' (2025), LSE Inequalities & American Politics and Policy at LSE  [Blog].

• ‘Britain needs nerds' (2024), LSE Business Review (with Draca, M, Nathan, M, Oleivera, J., Rosso, A., Valero, A.) [Blog].

• ‘A novel way to estimate car longevity shows that electric vehicles' life mileage is increasing fast’ (2024), LSE British Politics and Policy. (with Elliott, R.) [Blog].

• ‘Geopolitics and the electric vehicle revolution’ (2023), CentrePiece magazine. (with Jones, B., Elliott, R., Harper, G.)  [Magazine], also [LSE Business Review Blog].

• ‘Green growth and electric vehicles: the role of recycling’ (2022), LSE Business Review. (with Elliott, R., Harper, G., Laura, L.) [Blog].

Work in Progress

• ‘Electric Vehicles and Extreme Weathers’ (with Elliott, R.).

• ‘Pathways to Green Innovation: The Roles of Green Knowledge Relatedness and Complexity’ (with Meng, S. and Nguyen, B.).

• ‘‘Cleaner Energy, Higher Risk? Firm-level Exposure to Critical Minerals’.

• ‘Is Clean Innovation Clean?’ (with Martin, R., Read, M.).

• ‘Equity in the Electric Vehicle Transition: Charging Access, House Prices, and Energy Justice’ (with Maddison, D., Beltran, A.).