Michael Mehling is Deputy Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Professor of Practice at the University of Strathclyde Law School. From 2008 to 2014, Michael Mehling served as President of Ecologic Institute, Washington DC, where he remains on the Board of Directors and manages the U.S. chapter of the Konrad von Moltke Fund. In 2017, he joined the Board of Ecologic Institute in Berlin.

He brings two decades of experience working on climate, energy and environmental policy with government agencies, private companies and civil society organizations in North America, Europe, and the developing world. Trained as a lawyer, he has a strong background in legal and institutional analysis, complemented by several years of experience working in an interdisciplinary setting. His research interests include comparative and international climate change law and policy, climate finance and carbon pricing, drivers and conditions of energy transitions, environmental protection and international trade, and capacity building and training for sustainability development. On these topics, he has advised and coordinated research projects for government agencies in Brazil, Chile, China, Finland, Germany, Gibraltar, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam, as well as intergovernmental entities including the Asian Development Bank, the European Parliament, the European Commission, the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP), the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank Group.

Aside from the foregoing activities, he currently serves on the Boards of the Blockchain Climate Institute (BCI) in London; the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST) in Brussels; and the International Policy Coalition for Sustainable Growth in Washington DC. He is also an Associated Researcher with the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at the University of Cambridge, a Member of the Program Committee for the Master of Science in Energy Policy and Climate at Johns Hopkins University, and a Member of Climate Strategies, an international research network focused on climate and energy policy. In the past, he has co-chaired the Scientific Committee of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC), served on the Board of Directors of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources US (IUCN-US), and contributed to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Lazarowicz Report commissioned by the UK Prime Minister. He has been invited to brief legislators at the European Parliament and the UK House of Lords.