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I am an Economist within the Economics Team (subscribe to our Newsletter) at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Interim Lead of EDF's new Economic Analysis Hub, and editor of EDF's Economics Discussion Paper (EDP) series. I am also a member of the Climate Action Teams (CAT) initiative and the Multi-Country Electricity Transition (MCET) network. Previously, I was a Post-doctoral Fellow, Labor Economist at EDF. 

Before joining EDF, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF). I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU). Before that time, I worked as a Policy Advisor at the Mexican Ministry of Finance (SHCP).

My background combines Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics, and quantitative economy-wide modeling. My current research focuses on Environmental Economics from a Macroeconomics perspective. Much of my work relates to understanding the effects of implementing carbon pricing or other environmental policies on the economy as a whole and the labor market. 

Recently, I have been focusing on power system transformations, their labor market implications, and the broader economic impacts of clean energy policies. I have also started to work on understanding the effects of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in developing countries.

What's new

EDF and UC Santa Barbara's Environmental Markets Lab are jointly recruiting 2-3 postdoctoral scholars in environmental and resource economics. Fellows will have direct access to Christopher Costello (emLab Research Director and EDF Chief Economist) while collaborating with our broader team at EDF and emLab on carbon pricing, nature-based climate solutions, and market design research that bridges science and policy.

EDF's Economic Analysis Hub, which I lead, is recruiting a High Meadows Fellow from Princeton University. This two-year role offers seniors an exceptional opportunity to conduct rapid-response climate economics analysis that directly informs policy decisions.

Our research project "Power-to-X Pathways for a Decarbonized Energy Future: An Integrated Analysis and Decision-Making Framework" received 2025 Innovation for Impact funding from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and EDF's joint research program. 

With Lindsay Anderson and Gerald Ogbonna (Cornell University), Jerry Murphy, Richard O'Shea,  and Nathan Gray  (University College of Cork), and Tom Brindle, Peter Della Rocca, and Oliver Chapman (EDF).

Integrates detailed sectoral and chemical process modeling of Power-to-X technologies into the SWITCH power system capacity expansion platform, enabling more accurate cost comparisons across e-fuel pathways for hard-to-abate sectors.  

My comment "Overcoming five key challenges to make the energy transition a just labor transition"  is now published in Nature Communications. 

with Sharan Burrow, Shouvik Chakraborty, Reza Daniels, Alan Finkelstein Shapiro, Helena Garcia, Raphael Heffron, Michael Jakob, Markus Janser, Suzi Kerr, Catherine Leining, Dave Maré, Mauro Pucheta, Daniel Raimi, Mandy Rambharos, Euan Richardson, Marcela Tarazona, and Alessio Terzi,  

I spoke about this work at the EDF Economics Seminar on October 30, 11 AM ET, alongside co-authors Alan Finkelstein Shapiro (Tufts University), Daniel Raimi (Resources for the Future), and Michael Jakob (Climate Transitions Economics). (Recording)

My most recent  EDF's Market Forces blog post:  

"Canada’s 34,000-Job Opportunity: Finalizing Canada’s Methane Regulations" with Ari Pottens, Maureen Lackner, and Chi Chia (Gina) Chen (cited in The Hill Times, in a Pembina Institute's Blog Post, , Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) press release, and in EDF's Canada Waste Tracker), October 2025.

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