Kenneth Gillingham

Education & Curriculum Vitae

A.B., Dartmouth College
M.S., M.S., Stanford University
Ph.D., Stanford University

About

Professor Gillingham is a Professor at Yale University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2015-2016, he served as the Senior Economist for Energy and the Environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from the fields of applied microeconomics, behavioral economics, industrial organization, and integrated assessment modeling of climate change. His work has been published in top-tier journals across a range of fields, including economics, science, and management on topics relating to consumer decisions and policy in transportation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Review of Economics & Statistics.
 
Prior to joining the Yale faculty, he worked at the California Air Resources Board, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Stanford Energy Modeling Forum, Resources for the Future, and Joint Global Change Research Institute of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.  He is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to New Zealand.  His Ph.D. is from Stanford University, where he studied management science & engineering and economics. Before beginning a career as an economist, he was a wilderness ranger in Wyoming and New Hampshire.

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