E2E - Key Persons
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- Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California
Aaron Smith is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, where he has been since 2001. Originally from New Zealand, he earned his PhD in Economics from the University of California, San Diego. He conducts empirical research on policy issues in energy, agricultural, and financial markets. Recent project topics include the effects of residential energy efficiency policies and programs, impacts and efficiency of biofuel policies, and understanding commodity booms and busts. His research as received the Quality of Research Discovery, Outstanding AJAE Article, and Quality of Communication Awards from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. He served as an Associate Editor of American Journal of Agricultural Economics in 2009-2011.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Professor at Harvard University
Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The most cited law professor in the United States, he is author of numerous books, including Simpler: The Future of Government, the bestseller Nudge (with Richard Thaler), and Going To Extremes.
Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations, including Ukraine, Poland, China, South Africa, and Russia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Sunstein has been the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia, a visiting professor of law at Harvard, vice-chair of the ABA Committee on Separation of Powers and Governmental Organizations, chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the ABA Committee on the future of the FTC, and a member of the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.
Mr. Sunstein graduated in 1975 from Harvard College and in 1978 from Harvard Law School magna cum laude. After graduation, he clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, and then worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. He was a faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School from 1981 to 2008.
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- Faculty Director
- Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration
Catherine Wolfram is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. She is also Faculty Director of the Energy Institute at Haas and of The E2e Project. She is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliated faculty member in the Agriculture and Resource Economics department and the Energy and Resources Group at Berkeley.
Wolfram has published extensively on the economics of energy markets. She has studied the electricity industry around the world and has analyzed the effects of environmental regulation, including climate change mitigation policies, on the energy sector. She is currently implementing several randomized controlled trials to evaluate energy programs in the U.S., Kenya and India.
She received a PhD in economics from MIT in 1996 and an AB from Harvard in 1989. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was an assistant professor of economics at Harvard.
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- Faculty Director
- George P. Shultz Professor
Christopher Knittel is the George P. Shultz Professor in the Sloan School of Management and the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Faculty Director of The E2e Project. He joined the faculty at MIT in 2011, having taught previously at UC Davis and Boston University. Professor Knittel received his B.A. in economics and political science from the California State University, Stanislaus in 1994 (summa cum laude), an M.A. in economics from UC Davis in 1996, and a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 1999.
His research focuses on environmental economics, industrial organization, and applied econometrics. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Productivity, Industrial Organization, and Energy and Environmental Economics groups. Professor Knittel is an associate editor of The American Economic Journal -- Economic Policy, The Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Transportation Economics and Policy, and Journal of Energy Markets. His research has appeared in The American Economic Review, The American Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Industrial Economics, The Energy Journal and other academic journals.
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Advisory Board
As CEO, Dan Yates is responsible for the vision, strategy, and leadership of Opower. Under his leadership, Opower has become one of the fastest growing enterprise SaaS companies in the world: Opower has been cited as an example of innovation and success by President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron. Dan has been recognized as one of the leading SaaS CEOs through honors such as Washington Business Journal's Power 100, Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year®, Fortune's "40 under 40," and Washingtonian's "Tech Titans." Through his work at Opower, he is able to marry his love of the environment with his passion for building world-class software products. Dan co-founded Opower with Alex Laskey in 2007. Prior to Opower, he was founder and CEO of Edusoft, an educational software company that provided assessment platforms to US public school districts. He sold the 150-person, $20M company to publisher Houghton Mifflin in 2004. Dan received his BA in Computer Science, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard.
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- Associate Professor in the Economics Department at University of California
David Rapson is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at University of California, Davis and Co-Director of the Davis Energy Economics Program (DEEP). Rapson's research focuses on energy and environmental economics, industrial organization, and applied econometrics. His research includes several collaborative studies with regulated utilities and government agencies. These include the evaluation of dynamic pricing regimes, carbon offset programs, and the design and analysis of a large-scale randomized field experiment to test the role of information on price elasticity. His research appears in The American Economic Review, Nature, and other academic journals. Rapson holds an AB in Economics from Dartmouth College; an MA in Economics from Queen's University; and a PhD in Economics from Boston University.
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- President and CEO of Resources for the Future
Dr. Richard G. Newell is the President and CEO of Resources for the Future (RFF), an independent, nonprofit research organization that improves environmental, energy, and natural resource decisionmaking through rigorous economic analysis. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the administrator of the US Energy Information Administration, the agency responsible for official US government energy statistics and analysis. Dr. Newell is an adjunct professor at Duke University, where he was previously the Gendell Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and Founding Director of its Energy Initiative and Energy Data Analytics Lab. He has also served as the senior economist for energy and environment on the President's Council of Economic Advisers and was a senior fellow, and later a board member, at RFF.
Dr. Newell has published widely on the economics of markets and policies for energy and the environment, including issues surrounding global climate change, energy efficiency, and energy innovation. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the National Petroleum Council. He has provided expert advice to many institutions, such as the National Academy of Sciences, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the International Energy Forum.
Dr. Newell holds a PhD from Harvard University, an MPA from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a BS and BA from Rutgers University.
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- Associate Professor of Energy
Duncan Callaway is an Associate Professor of Energy and Resources with an affiliate appointment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Callaway has a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University, was an NSF postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. He joined Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley 2009. Prior to joining UC Berkeley in 2009 he spent several years in industry, working on building energy efficiency and solar photovoltaic design, and he was a member of the research faculty of the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Callaway's teaching focuses on power systems and energy efficiency. His research focuses on (1) quantifying grid-level impacts of renewables integration (2) designing strategies to mitigate the negative impacts of grid integration of renewables and (3) improving demand side efficiency with new data analysis tools and electric vehicle charging. Some recent specific research topics include volt-VAR optimization in distribution systems, quantifying the value of storage and demand response in power systems, and algorithms for coordinated aggregation of electricity loads to deliver power system level services.
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- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois
Erica Myers is an Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois. She received her PhD in Environmental and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2014. Prior to her doctoral studies, she received a MS in Environmental Economics from the University of Rhode Island in 2007 and worked as a research assistant at Resources for the Future from 2007 to 2009.
Her primary area of interest is in environmental and energy economics. She has done work on the design and implementation of carbon allowance markets and testing for the presence of market failures that may lead to under-investment in energy efficiency. Recently, her work has focused on the salience of energy costs in home rental and purchase decisions and its implications for investment in energy efficiency.
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- Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy
Fiona is an assistant professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. She studies energy and environmental economics, with a focus on the developing world. Prior to joining Harris, she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. Burlig holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in economics, political science, and German from Williams College.
Frank A. Wolak is the Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. His fields of specialization are Industrial Organization and Econometric Theory. His recent work studies methods for introducing competition into infrastructure industries - telecommunications, electricity, water delivery and postal delivery services - and on assessing the impacts of these competition policies on consumer and producer welfare. From January 1, 1998 to March 31, 2011, Wolak was the Chair of the Market Surveillance Committee of the California Independent System Operator for electricity supply industry in California. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He currently directs the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) in the Freeman-Spogli Institute (FSI) for International Studies at Stanford University. Wolak was a member of the Emissions Market Advisory Committee (EMAC) for California's Market for Greenhouse Gas Emissions allowances until 2013.
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- Associate Professor of Economics at New York University
Hunt Allcott is an Associate Professor of Economics at New York University, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Hunt is also a Scientific Director of ideas42, a think tank that applies insights from psychology and economics to problems in international development, health care, consumer finance, and the energy industry. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and a BS and MS from Stanford University. Hunt has worked in the private sector as a consultant with Cambridge Energy Research Associates and with Arthur D. Little and in international development as a consultant to the World Bank.
Hunt is an applied microeconomist who studies topics in environmental economics, industrial organization, behavioral economics, and international development. His most recent research centers on consumer behavior, business strategy, and regulatory policy in energy markets. This includes analyses of how firms set prices in electricity markets, how much consumers value higher fuel economy vehicles, and the effectiveness of insights from behavioral economics and psychology in helping people to conserve energy. He uses a variety of research methods, including both structural and reduced form econometrics, applied theory, and randomized field experiments.
James M. Sallee is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics of the University of California, Berkeley and a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research spans a variety of topics in public economics, including the economics of taxation and environmental economics. His current research is focused on evaluating policy alternatives for increasing the fuel economy of new vehicles in the United States.
James teaches courses on policy approaches to mitigating climate change, U.S. tax policy and empirical methods at the Harris School. He was the 2008 recipient of the National Tax Association Dissertation Award and the 2009 recipient of the John V. Krutilla Research Award. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan in 2008. He also holds a B.A. in economics and political science from Macalester College.
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- Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California
Jeremy West is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research spans a variety of topics in public economics, with a primary focus on energy and environmental economics. Much of his recent work considers the implications of behavioral economics for the efficacy of public policies in energy markets. He emphasizes the distributional consequences of policies as well as their overall efficiency. In addition to his research activities, Jeremy is collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of UCSC faculty to design and teach a novel educational program on Coastal Science and Policy, with a core focus on energy conservation and resource sustainability. Prior to joining UCSC, Jeremy spent several years as a postdoctoral associate in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Jeremy has a PhD in Economics from Texas A&M University.
Jing Li is an Assistant Professor and holds the William Barton Rogers Career Development Chair of Energy Economics at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests are industrial organization and environmental and energy economics. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Harvard University, and a B.SC. in economics and a B.Sc. in mathematics from MIT.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Emeritus Institute Professor / Department of Chemistry / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Member of the MIT
- Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Deutch is an emeritus Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Deutch has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1970, and has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science and Provost. Mr. Deutch has published over 140 technical publications in physical chemistry, as well as numerous publications on technology, energy, international security, and public policy issues.
John Deutch has served in significant government and academic posts throughout his career. In May 1995, he was sworn in as Director of Central Intelligence following a unanimous vote in the Senate, and served as DCI until December 1996. In this position, he was head of the Intelligence Community (all foreign intelligence agencies of the United States) and directed the Central Intelligence Agency. From March 1994 to May 1995, he served as the Deputy Secretary of Defense. From March 1993 to March 1994, Dr. Deutch served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions and Technology.
From 1977 to 1980, John Deutch served in a number of positions for the U.S. Department of Energy: as Director of Energy Research, Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Technology, and Undersecretary of the Department.
In addition John Deutch has served on many commissions during several presidential administrations. He has served on the President's Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee (1980-81); the President's Commission on Strategic Forces (1983); the White House Science Council (1985-89); the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (1997-2001), the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (1990-93); the President' Commission on Aviation Safety and Security (1996); the Commission on Reducing and Protecting Government Secrecy (1996); and as Chairman of the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (1998-99).
John Deutch has received fellowships and honors from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1978) and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Research Fellow 1967-69), and John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (Memorial Fellow 1974-1975). Public Service Medals have been awarded him from the Department of Energy (1980), the Department of State (1980), the Department of Defense (1994 and 1995), the Department of the Army (1995), the Department of the Navy (1995), the Department of the Air Force (1995), the Coast Guard (1995), the Central Intelligence Distinguished Intelligence Medal (1996) and the Intelligence Community Distinguished Intelligence Medal (1996). He received the Greater Boston Federal Executive Board's Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Award for exemplary public service in 2002, the Aspen Strategy Group Leadership Award in 2004, and he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007. He delivered the 2010 Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council (2008) and the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. (2010).
John Deutch earned a B.A. in history and economics from Amherst College, and both the B.S. in chemical engineering and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from M.I.T. He holds honorary degrees from Amherst College, University of Lowell, and Northeastern University. He has served as director for the following publicly held companies: American Natural Resources, Citigroup, CMS Energy, Cummins Engine, Perkin-Elmer, Raytheon, SAIC, Schlumberger and Cheniere Energy. He is a trustee of Center of American Progress, Resources for the Future, the Massachusetts Hospital Physician Organization, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Skolkovo Institute. He has served on the board of the Urban Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations
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- Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
John List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. List received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and his PhD from the University of Wyoming. List had his first teaching position at the University of Central Florida, and he then moved to the University of Arizona and the University of Maryland, College Park, where he still holds an adjunct position, before moving to Chicago. List has been at the forefront of environmental economics and has served as senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors for Environmental and Resource Economics. List is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and a University Fellow at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. List is best known as one of the world's leading experts on experimental economics. His work focuses on microeconomic issues, and includes over 150 academic publications.
Judson Boomhower is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on energy and environmental economics. Recent and ongoing projects include work related to energy-efficiency programs in California and Mexico, environmental protection in oil and gas extraction, and the economics of climate change adaptation. He earned his PhD from UC Berkeley in agricultural and resource economics, and undergraduate and master's degrees from Stanford University.
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- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California
Katrina Jessoe is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, where she specializes in environmental and energy economics. Much of her recent research focuses on consumer and firm behavior in the energy and water sectors. Some ongoing and recent research projects include the analysis of time-variant pricing programs for residential and commercial electricity consumers and the interaction between energy and water conservation programs. These projects often involve collaborations with water and electric utilities, and state agencies. She received a BA from Princeton University in 2002 and a PhD in Environmental and Resource Economics from Yale University in 2009.
Kevin Novan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis. His research interests are in the fields of energy and environmental economics, focusing primarily on questions surrounding the design of policies targeted towards the electricity sector. Recent work quantifies the impact of renewable energy policies on pollution, examines the social costs and benefits of storing electricity, and evaluates the energy savings provided by residential energy efficiency programs. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Western Washington University.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy
Koichiro Ito is an Associate Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and taught at Stanford University and Boston University prior to joining the University of Chicago.
His research interests lie at the intersection of environmental and energy economics, industrial organization, and public economics. These include analyses of how consumers respond to nonlinear pricing, dynamic pricing, and rebate incentives in electricity markets, how intrinsic and extrinsic motivation affects their economics decisions, how firms strategically react to attribute-based regulation such as fuel economy standards, and how wind farms respond to dynamic incentives in sequential forward markets in wholesale electricity markets. His research uses randomized field experiments and quasi-experimental designs to address policy relevant questions in energy and environmental policy.
He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, and a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University.
Louis Preonas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is an energy and environmental economist, and much of his research focuses on interacting market distortions in U.S. energy markets. He also works at the intersection of environmental and development economics, focusing on the economic impacts of electricity access in the developing world. Prior to going to the University of Maryland, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Energy Policy Institute and the Economics department at the University of Chicago for a year. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. at the University of Michigan.
Lucas Davis is the Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor in Business and Technology at the Haas School of Business. He received a BA from Amherst College in 1996 and a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin in 2005. Prior to joining Haas in 2009, he was an assistant professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. His research focuses primarily on energy and environmental markets, and in particular, on electricity and natural gas regulation, pricing in competitive and non-competitive markets, and the economic and business impacts of environmental policy. His work appears in leading academic journals including the American Economic Review, the RAND Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA.
Mar Reguant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Northwestern, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Licenciatura in Economics at the Universitat Autonomade Barcelona. Her research uses high frequency data to study the impact of auction design and environmental regulation on electricity markets, and to quantify the impact of carbon trading on energy intensive industries. In her recent work, she explores the application of machine learning to the energy efficiency context. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Environmental and Energy Economics group and the Industrial Organization group. She was awarded an NSF CAREER grant in 2015 and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2016.
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- Professor of Economics at Yale University
Matthew Kotchen is a professor of economics at Yale University, with a primary appointment in the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and courtesy appointments in the Yale School of Management and the Department of Economics. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Professor Kotchen's research interests lie at the intersection of environmental and public economics and policy. Ongoing projects employ both theoretical and empirical methods covering a range of topics, including energy, climate change, "green" markets, corporate social responsibility, development, and applied game theory. Kotchen joined the Yale faculty in 2009 and has held previous and visiting positions at Williams College, University of California (Santa Barbara and Berkeley), Stanford University, and Resources for the Future.
Maximilian Auffhammer is the George Pardee Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the International Areas Studies Teaching program at UC Berkeley. He received a B.S. in environmental science (1996) and a M.S. in environmental and resource economics (1998) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a PhD in economics from UC San Diego in 2003. His research focuses on environmental and resource economics, energy economics and applied econometrics. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Energy and Environmental Economics group, a Humboldt Foundation Fellow, and a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He is also the recipient of the 2007 Cozzarelli Prize awarded by the National Academies of Sciences, the 2009 Campus Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2007 Sarlo Distinguished Mentoring Award.
Meredith Fowlie is an Associate Professor and holds the Class of 1935 Endowed Chair in Energy in the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She received a MSc in Environmental Economics from Cornell University in 2000 and PhD in Environmental and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2006. Fowlie has worked extensively on the economics of energy markets and the environment. She is an affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group, a research affiliate at the Energy Institute at Haas, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Environmental and Energy Economics group.
Job Titles:
- Faculty Director
- Milton Friedman Professor
Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School, as well as the Director of the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago and the Energy & Environment Lab at the University of Chicago Urban Labs. He is also Faculty Director of The E2e Project. He previously served as the Chief Economist for President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, and currently serves on the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board. Greenstone also directed the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project, which studies policies to promote economic growth, and has since joined its Advisory Council. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and editor of the Journal of Political Economy. Before coming to Chicago, Greenstone was the 3M Professor of Environmental Economics at MIT.
Greenstone's research estimates the costs and benefits of environmental quality and society's energy choices. He has worked extensively on the Clean Air Act and examined its impacts on air quality, manufacturing activity, housing prices, and human health to assess its benefits and costs. He is currently engaged in large-scale projects to estimate the economic costs of climate change and to identify efficient approaches to mitigating these costs.
His research is increasingly focused on developing countries. This work includes an influential paper that demonstrated that high levels of particulates air pollution from coal combustion are causing the 500 million residents of Northern China to lose more than 2.5 billion years of life expectancy. He is also engaged in projects with the Government of India and four Indian state governments that use randomized control trials to test innovative ways to improve the functioning of environmental regulations and increase energy access.
Greenstone received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a BA in economics with High Honors from Swarthmore College.
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- Faculty Director
- Professor
Nicholas Ryan studies energy markets and environmental regulation in developing countries. Energy use enables high standards of living but rapid, energy-intensive growth has caused many environmental problems in turn. Nick's research measures how energy use and pollution emissions respond to regulation and market incentives. His work includes empirical studies of the effect of power grid capacity on electricity prices, how firms make decisions about energy-efficiency and how environmental regulation can be designed to best abate pollution at low social cost.
Nick is joining Yale University as a Cowles Foundation Fellow for 2014-15 and an Assistant Professor of Economics from 2015 onwards. He has been a Prize Fellow in Economics at Harvard University from 2012-2014. He received a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 and a BA in Economics summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. He previously worked as a Research Associate in the Capital Markets group at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC.
Peter Christensen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and a Core Faculty member of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research areas are energy and environmental economics, urban economics, and development economics. He received a Ph.D. in environmental and resource economics from Yale University, a M.E.Sc. from Yale University and a B.A. from the University of California, Davis.
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- Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California
Rob Metcalfe is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. He is an applied microeconomist and his research focuses on using field experimental methods to understand human behavior in consumer markets and within organizations. A theme in his research is to understand such behavior and the measurement of welfare in the presence of market imperfections and externalities. Prior to joining the University of Southern California, he was an Assistant Professor in Markets, Public Policy & Law in the Questrom School of Business at Boston University, and before that, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Economics at the University of Chicago and a Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Oxford (Merton College). He previously worked in the U.K. Government as an Economist, and had a short-term position as a Fellow at the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Office of the U.S. President. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Imperial College London, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from the University of Wales.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Managing Principal / Analysis Group
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- Senior Director, Communications and External Engagement