Dominic founded Eunomia in 2001. He has an honours degree in Physics (University of Oxford), a Masters Degree in Development Economics (University of Wales, Swansea) and a PhD in economics (University of Cambridge). He specialises in cross-disciplinary studies in the field of policy development and appraisal, and strategy development.

 

Dominic's Ph.D. - published in full by MacMillan - was a study on the economics of technological change in agriculture. The work highlighted the cross-disciplinary approach which he brings to bear on all of his work, drawing, as it did, from work in genetics, plant-breeding, law, social theory and economics.

 

Following his Ph.D., Dominic worked for ECOTEC Research & Consulting, where he became Associate Director with responsibility for the company's environmental policy and economics work. He was involved in discussions concerning a pesticides tax / charge scheme in the UK, the development of the landfill tax in the UK, the introduction of the landfill tax in Ireland, discussions leading to the implementation of an aggregates tax in the UK, and a review of environmental taxes and charges for the European Commission.

 

He founded Eunomia with the intention of establishing a consultancy with a distinct, normative ethos. He leads Eunomia's policy and strategy work, and all projects with a strong economics component. He has been involved in the assessment of waste systems and technologies for many years. He has carried out major policy projects of this nature for Governments and for the European Commission, as well as major cost-benefit studies for bodies such as WRAP. He has enormous experience of assessment methods as applied to waste management technologies, as well as understanding, and critically reviewing, the nature of the interface with existing policies. He has also been involved in a number of leading edge policy projects involving market based instruments for environmental policy, both within the waste sector (landfill tax, landfill allowances) and outside it (for example, a review of such instruments in Europe for the European Environment Agency).

 

Dominic has been technical advisor at two House of Commons Inquiries into waste, one for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in England, the other, for a sub-committee of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee in Northern Ireland. He has been serving as an ex-officio advisor to Defra’s New Technologies Programme since before its commencement. He is regularly invited to speak at major conferences in the UK and overseas, and has given papers at major conferences in Japan, New Zealand, Slovakia, South Africa, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy, and the Czech Republic.