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I am a Senior 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 part of the Management Team of the RESET Network - Solutions for South-led just energy transitions. 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?

International Energy Workshop (IEW) 2026 — Cape Town, 22–24 June. 

The 44th edition of the International Energy Workshop will be hosted by the Energy Systems Research Group (ESRG) at the University of Cape Town from 22 to 24 June 2026. The RESET Network is a Gold Sponsor of IEW 2026, supporting travel grants for Global South participants and a branded conference lunch. I will be attending and look forward to connecting with colleagues working on just energy transitions across the Global South. Further details on RESET's involvement, including a co-hosted side event, will be shared in the coming weeks. 

EDF at WCERE 2026 — NOVA School of Business and Economics, Carcavelos (Lisbon), Portugal, June 29–July 3 

EDF is a proud sponsor of the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE) 2026, held at NOVA School of Business and Economics' oceanfront campus in Carcavelos, Portugal. I am co-chairing (with Kristina Mohlin) the session "Beyond GWP: Implementing Economically Grounded Exchange Rates for Superpollutants in Global Carbon Markets" (Thursday, July 2, 4:30–6:15pm, Jerónimo Martins Grand Auditorium). The session moves beyond Global Warming Potential toward exchange rates between CO₂ and superpollutants derived from the ratio of social costs (SCx/SCC), drawing on upcoming work by Carleton, Costello, Fernández Intriago, Meng, Pearen, and Stock (2026), with presentations from Christopher Costello, Thomas Sterner, Thomas Stoerk, and Pedro Martins Barata. You can also find EDF's Economics team across WCERE here.

Open letter on New York Cap-and-Invest and the CLCPA — April 30, 2026

I joined leading environmental and energy economists in signing an open letter urging Governor Hochul and the New York State Legislature to advance an economy-wide cap-and-invest program as soon as possible as a centerpiece of implementing the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). The letter underscores that pricing emissions is the most cost-effective way to reduce them, and that reinvesting program revenues can ensure consumers realize net benefits while accelerating the transition to clean energy and lowering energy costs for households and businesses. Co-signatories include economists from EDF, Cornell University, Columbia University, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, Williams College, and Resources for the Future. See EDF's press release for more. 

"Overcoming five key challenges to make the energy transition a just labor transition" 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 presented our commentary at the ARNECC Paper Talks — Just and Inclusive Energy Transition Series, hosted by the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) and the ASEAN Climate Change and Energy Project (ACCEPT II). The session explored how the five-challenges framework applies to the ASEAN context, with particular focus on Indonesia and Vietnam's JETP implementation, informal workforce inclusion, and measuring progress through the Just Labor Transition Progress Scale. The discussion highlighted the importance of tailored, context-specific policies and South-South knowledge exchange — connecting directly to work underway through the RESET Network. Read ACE's full write-up here. (Recording)

Canada's methane opportunity and Canadian jobs — new Market Forces blog post, February 20, 2026 

Our Market Forces blog post "Canada's Methane Opportunity and Canadian Jobs Hinge on Strong Alberta Implementation of Federal Methane Rules" examines how Alberta's participation is key to unlocking the full economic opportunity of the federal methane rules — including approximately 7,522 jobs in Alberta alone. With Ari Pottens, Christine Gerbode, and Juan Moreno-Cruz (University of Waterloo).

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