Fraser Macleod
Partner
Offices: United Kingdom
Email: fraser.macleod@technopolis-group.com
Fraser Macleod, Partner, manages Technopolis’ UK Green Economy team and has over 20 years’ experience in designing, managing or delivering policy research and evaluations. With a focus on energy and environment policy, he has managed and quality assured evaluations for a range of national Government Departments and delivery agencies. He has successfully delivered projects using a range of quantitative and qualitative methods, including development of evaluation frameworks for process and impact evaluations and evaluations using both experimental and theory-based evaluation methods. Fraser brings particular expertise in theory-based methods including Contribution Analysis, Process Tracing and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).
Fraser has directed and quality assured a number of important projects to inform net-zero and environmental policy for Defra and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). Fraser managed a £1million framework contract to provide research and evaluation support for DESNZ Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP TTPS). He has managed successful delivery of several DESNZ R&D programmes supporting the development of emerging low carbon technologies. Beyond clean technology innovation programmes, Fraser has managed a range of wider policy evaluations covering investment in renewables, energy efficiency in buildings, industrial decarbonisation, hydrogen deployment and circular economy related policies.
Until November 2017, Fraser worked as a Principal Research Officer at the UK Government Department, BEIS. Assignments there included analytical work on the Impact Assessment of the Boiler Plus regulations; to assess the role of smart heating controls and other energy using products in meeting EPC improvements. Plus, managing a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) to test the impact of providing home heating advice to social housing tenants. Prior to that, he worked at Defra, where he led an ex-ante evaluation to inform design of the 2014-2020 EU Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE).
He holds a MSc in Social Research methods from the University of Edinburgh and a BA (hons) in Social Science. Professional accreditations include receiving a Galileo Master Certificate in Renewable Energy Finance from the European Energy Institute.