David Michael Garrood Newbery, CBE, FBA (born 1 June 1943),[2] is a British economist who has been Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge since 1988.
His interests also include climate change mitigation and environmental policy, privatisation, and risk.
He studied at Portsmouth Grammar School from 1954 till 1961, where he won Best Science Candidate in Cambridge GCE A&S Level.
In 1981 Newbery co-authored a book (The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization: A Study in the Economics of Risk) and several articles with the Nobel-laureate Joseph Stiglitz.
[8] He was a member of the Competition Commission in 1996–2002, and chairman of the Dutch electricity market surveillance committee.