Frances C. Moore
Frances C. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California Davis. She studies the risks climate change poses to human welfare and how individuals and communities respond to mitigate those risks. Her work is highly interdisciplinary with a focus on climate science and environmental economics, but including collaborations with engineers, psychologists, ecologists, and political scientists. Recent research topics include the relationship between climate change and economic growth, climate change effects on natural capital, endogenizing climate policy in models of the coupled climate-social system, and the interaction of climate risk with insurance markets. Between 2022 and 2023 she served as a Senior Economist in the Council of Economic Advisers in the Biden Administration, providing economic and policy analysis on climate change and clean energy issues. She holds the Hurlstone Presidential Chair and is a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow.
Neha Khanna
Neha Khanna is a Professor of Economics at Binghamton University (State University of New York). Her research covers global oil markets, the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality, voluntary and strategic self-regulation and strategic behavior and pollution spillovers under the U.S. Clean Air Act. On-going projects examine the environmental justice issues arising out of the intergenerational persistence in exposure to pollution as well as the welfare consequences of exposure to roadway noise. In 2020, she received the coveted SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities and in 2024 she was awarded the Lois B. DeFleur Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence by Binghamton University. She also received NAREA’s (Northeastern Association of Agricultural and Resource Economics) 2021 Distinguished Member Award for continuous and outstanding contribution to the profession. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) and as President of NAREA.
Christopher Timmins
Christopher Timmins is the Gary J Gorman Affordable Housing Professor in the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department at the Wisconsin School of Business. Chris specializes in urban and environmental economics, but he also has interests in industrial organization, development, public and regional economics. He works on developing new methods for non-market valuation of local public goods and amenities, with a particular focus on hedonic techniques and models of residential sorting. His recent research has focused on measuring the costs associated with exposure to poor air quality, the benefits associated with remediating brownfields and toxic waste under the Superfund program, the valuation of non-marginal changes in disamenities, and the causes and consequences of “environmental injustice”. Chris is a research associate in the Environmental and Energy Economics group at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has served as a co-editor at both JEEM and JAERE and an editor of the latter. In 2021, he was named an AERE Fellow.
Ann Wolverton
Dr. Ann Wolverton has over 23 years of experience as a research economist at the National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) at the U.S. EPA. She currently leads the agency’s community of practice on environmental justice in rulemakings, heads a team within NCEE that reviews all EJ analyses for major rules, and is leading the effort to update EPA’s technical guidance for conducting evaluating EJ in regulatory analyses. In addition, Ann leads a team building computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling capacity for the agency, has also been involved in developing EPA guidance for conducting economic analysis, and was part of the inaugural interagency effort to develop social cost of carbon estimates for use in federal regulatory analysis. Ann served as a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in 2006-2007 and again in 2009-2010.