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Leslie Martin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne. Her primary fields are environmental economics and energy economics, and secondary fields are industrial organisation and international development. Dr Martin's research currently focusses on (1) consumer responses to the availability of smart meter data in markets with retail competition and (2) interactions between regulation, firms, and environmental outcomes in industrialising countries. She has also conducted a recent evaluation of driver responses to road use charges. Dr. Martin has a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in applied mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She spent several years as a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, studying the impact of climate change-related disasters on developing countries, and as a consultant for the World Bank in Bolivia working on productivity and competitiveness, pension reform, and hydrocarbon taxes.