Dr Iain MacGill is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor in the School of Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer­ing and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions at the Uni­ver­sity of New South Wales, and Joint Direc­tor (Engi­neer­ing) for the University’s Cen­tre for Energy and Envi­ron­men­tal Mar­kets (CEEM). He leads work in two of CEEM’s three research areas -  Sus­tain­able Energy Trans­for­ma­tion  includ­ing energy tech­nol­ogy assess­ment and renew­able energy inte­gra­tion, and Dis­trib­uted energy sys­tems includ­ing ‘smart grids’ and ‘smart’ homes, dis­trib­uted gen­er­a­tion and demand-​​side par­tic­i­pa­tion. He also has research inter­ests in energy and cli­mate pol­icy. He has run indus­try short courses and con­sulted to indus­try and gov­ern­ment clients in these areas here in Aus­tralia and inter­na­tion­ally. He is the Respon­si­ble Aus­tralian Expert on the Inter­na­tional Energy Agency’s PV Power Sys­tems Task 14 on high PV pen­e­tra­tions in the elec­tric­ity grid and an invited expert for the tech­ni­cal ref­er­ence groups of the Fed­eral Government’s Aus­tralian Energy Tech­nol­ogy Assess­ment, the Aus­tralian Energy Mar­ket Operator’s future energy sce­nar­ios plan­ning process and, pre­vi­ously, the Aus­tralian Energy Mar­ket Commission’s Demand-​​Side Par­tic­i­pa­tion Review. Iain has a PhD (Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer­ing) from UNSW, and a M.Eng.Sc. (Bio­med­ical) and B.E. from the Uni­ver­sity of Mel­bourne. For­mer roles include ‘smart con­trol sys­tems’ con­sult­ing in the Aus­tralian Min­ing and Min­eral Pro­cess­ing indus­try, and sev­eral years in Wash­ing­ton DC as a senior pol­icy ana­lyst in the envi­ron­men­tal NGO sec­tor. CEEM itself under­takes inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research in the analy­sis and design of energy and envi­ron­men­tal mar­kets and their asso­ci­ated pol­icy frame­works. It brings together researchers from five UNSW Fac­ul­ties with project fund­ing from part­ners includ­ing the Aus­tralian Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment, CSIRO, State Gov­ern­ments and industry.