I am an Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. I am the Director of the Climate & Energy program at the Environmental Markets Lab at UC Santa Barbara, an affiliate of the Climate Impact Lab, an affiliate of the Center for Effective Global Action, a standing committee member of the National Academies of Sciences Environmental Health Matters Initiative, a Beijer Young Scholar, and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

 

I joined Berkeley after a faculty position at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and a postdoc at University of Chicago. I completed my PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley, where I was an EPA STAR Fellow and a Doctoral Fellow in the Global Policy Lab at the Goldman School of Public Policy. I have masters degrees from the University of Oxford, where I was a Rhodes Scholar.

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I am an environmental and resource economist, using large geospatial datasets to answer questions at the intersection of environmental change and economic development. I study climate, water, air pollution, and remote sensing.