Laura O. Taylor

Laura O. Taylor is the director of the Energy Policy and Innovation Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Previously, she was chair of the School of Economics, also at Georgia Tech, and the Director of the Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy at North Carolina State University. She is an economist who conducts research on policy-relevant topics at the intersection of energy, environmental management, and healthy communities; she recently published papers about offshore wind energy in the United States, the impacts of distributed energy resources on communities, the impacts of air pollution exposures on mortality, and other topics related to RFF’s focal areas. She is a fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.