Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
Joe Aldy is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Visiting Fellow at Resources for the Future, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His research focuses on climate change policy, energy policy, and mortality risk valuation. He also serves as the Faculty Chair of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Regulatory Policy Program. In 2009-2010, he served as the Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Environment at the White House. Aldy previously served as a Fellow at Resources for the Future and worked on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He served as the Co-Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements and Co-Director of the International Energy Workshop before joining the Obama Administration. He earned his doctorate in economics from Harvard University, a masters of environmental management degree from the Nicholas School of the Environment, and a bachelors degree from Duke University.
Curbing climate change has a dollar value — here's how and why we measure it
Mar 13, 2017 04:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
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What Trump misses about regulations: They produce benefits as well as costs
Feb 06, 2017 07:42 am UTC| Law Politics
President Trump jettisoned more than 30 years of bipartisan regulatory policy on January 30 when he issued an executive order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs. The order requires that whenever a new...
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