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CCEP Director
Raymond Kopp, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Climate and Electricity Policy

Raymond Kopp works in the area of policy design supporting U.S. federal mitigation and adaptation efforts, as well as international cooperation and collaboration agreements to limit greenhouse gas emissions. He is a lead author on the IPCC Working Group III Fifth Assessment Report.

CCEP Staff

Karen Palmer, Research Director, Senior Fellow and CCEP Associate Director for Electricity
Carolyn Fischer, Senior Fellow and CCEP Associate Director for Research
Kristin Hayes, Assistant Center Director

RFF CCEP Experts

Allen Blackman, Senior Fellow
Timothy J. Brennan, Senior Fellow
Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow
Roger Cooke, Chauncey Starr Senior Fellow
Maureen Cropper, Senior Fellow
Mun Ho, Visiting Scholar
Carolyn Kousky, Fellow
Alan Krupnick, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Energy Economics and Policy
Joshua Linn, Fellow
Molly Macauley, Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow
Richard Morgenstern, Senior Fellow
Daniel Morris, Center Fellow
Anthony Paul, Center Fellow
Nigel Purvis, Visiting Scholar
Nathan Richardson, Resident Scholar
Roger Sedjo, Senior Fellow and Director, Forest Economics and Policy Program
Jhih-Shyang Shih, Fellow
Margaret Walls, Research Director and Thomas J. Klutznick Senior Fellow
Michael Wolosin, Visiting Scholar

Other Affiliated Experts

Joseph E. Aldy, RFF Nonresident Fellow; Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University
Joshua W. Busby, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Texas–Austin
Daniel Bodansky, Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Larry Goulder, RFF University Fellow; Shuzo Nishihara Chair in Environmental and Resources Economics at Stanford University
William A. Pizer, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

More About RFF'S CCEP Experts

Allen Blackman specializes in climate economics issues in developing countries including reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD), and the adoption and diffusion of climate friendly technologies.

Tim Brennan looks at electricity markets, practices, and regulations from the perspectives of competition policy and economic efficiency. Among topics addressed in earlier work are vertical integration, capacity markets, and real-time pricing; his current research includes energy efficiency policy rationales, effects, and implementation.

Dallas Burtraw specializes in domestic climate policy affecting the electricity sector, including regulation under the Clean Air Act, and also on issues relating to the interaction among policies at the state, regional, and federal level. Burtraw also has worked with an international consortium studying policy in the European Union.

Roger Cooke is lead author for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report chapter on risk and uncertainty, which are his areas of research specialty. He has conducted numerous analyses of potential risks from climate change, and recently worked on introducing Accident Sequence Precursor analysis to the U.S. deepwater drilling sector.

Maureen Cropper is examining policies to improve energy efficiency in the electric power and transport sectors in India. The power sector project evaluates the impact of electricity sector reforms on generation efficiency at coal-fired power plants, and the transport sector project examines the impact of fuel taxes and fuel economy standards on Indian households, based on a model of the demand for vehicle characteristics and miles traveled.

Carolyn Fischer has published articles on designing cap-and-trade programs, fuel economy standards, renewable portfolio standards, en¬ergy efficiency programs, technology policies, the Clean Development Mechanism, and the evaluation of international climate policy commitments. She currently focuses her research on the interplay between international trade and climate policy, options for avoiding carbon leakage, and the implications for energy-intensive, trade-exposed sectors.

Mun Ho’s research is focused on productivity measurement, economic growth, and environmental policy. He specializes in modeling the effects of energy and environmental policies on economic growth, productivity, and human health, including studies of carbon taxes in U.S. and China.

Carolyn Kousky focuses on extreme event risk. She is interested in risk management strategies for potential high damage climate scenarios and individual and societal responses to climate-induced changes in natural disasters. Kousky also studies local-level climate adaptation policies.

Alan Krupnick examines the costs and cost-effectiveness of alternative mitigation policies in the United States, focusing on the electric utility and transportation sectors. He also uses stated preference techniques to examine public preferences for mitigation and alternative burden-sharing rules.

Joshua Linn’s research focuses on renewable technologies in the U.S. electricity sector, as well as passenger vehicles in the U.S. and European transportation sectors.

Molly Macauley’s expertise is in the economics of new technology for environmental management; the role of public policy in encouraging innovation; forest management for carbon sequestration; and domestic climate adaptation policy.

Richard Morgenstern focuses on a broad range of climate mitigation policies, mostly in industrial countries. In recent work he has examined design and effectiveness issues associated with voluntary, regulatory, and market based policies. He has also examined competitiveness impacts of carbon pricing.

Daniel Morris focuses on the policy and economic implications of a wide suite of climate change issues, many related to land use, human development, and natural systems. He is currently working on domestic climate adaptation policy, water supply, forest carbon, and ecosystem services.

Karen Palmer specializes in the economics of environmental and public utility regulation, particularly on issues at the intersection of air quality regulation and the electricity sector. Her work seeks to improve the design of energy and environmental policy directed at the electric utility sector, including policies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, to promote renewable sources of energy and to encourage investment in end-use energy efficiency.

Anthony Paul’s research interests include allowance allocation under cap-and-trade programs for air pollution reductions, energy efficiency on the demand side of electricity markets, and electricity market regulatory structures. He developed and manages RFF’s Haiku model of the electricity sector.

Nigel Purvis is a leading expert on U.S. and global climate and energy policy. He has published extensively on such diverse topics as climate finance, international forest carbon, and U.S. treaty law relating to climate and energy issues.

Nathan Richardson is an attorney whose research focuses on implementation and design of environmental laws, particularly those aimed at the energy sector. He also studies liability laws and their effect on industry incentives, environmental federalism, and international climate negotiations.

Roger Sedjo specializes in climate issues related to forests including forest carbon sequestration and forest carbon measurement, monitoring, and trading. He also conducts research related to biomass energy and other climate-related issues.

Jhih-Shyang Shih specializes in system analysis and economics for public decisionmaking. He has extensive experience with modeling to study air quality management, competitiveness, renewable energy, and technology diffusion, among other topics.

Margaret Walls’ research on climate-related issues includes analysis of the distributional impacts of a U.S. carbon cap-and-trade system, including impacts by income group, region, and age group, and assessment of policies to improve building energy efficiency.

Michael Wolosin conducts policy research and analysis on U.S. approaches to reducing tropical deforestation emissions, and opportunities for reducing international land-use change emissions. He is also leading research on Congressional attitudes toward forest conservation, providing insights and recommendations on future policy options.