Catherine Wolfram

Catherine Wolfram is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business. Beginning in March 2021, she is on leave from UC Berkeley to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate & Energy Economics in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her leave, she served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Chair of the Faculty. She was also the Program Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Environment and Energy Economics Program, and an affiliated faculty member in the Agriculture and Resource Economics department and the Energy and Resources Group at Berkeley.

Wolfram has published extensively on the economics of energy markets. Her work has analyzed rural electrification programs in the developing world, energy efficiency programs in the US, the effects of environmental regulation on energy markets and the impact of privatization and restructuring in the US and UK. She is currently implementing several randomized controlled trials to evaluate energy programs in the U.S., Ghana, and Kenya. She received a PhD in Economics from MIT in 1996 and an AB from Harvard in 1989. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard.

Education

• PhD, Economics, MIT
  
• AB, Economics, Harvard University
  

Expertise and Research Interests

• Energy Policy and Climate Change
• Energy In The Developing World
• Environmental Regulation
• New Data Collection Techniques

Positions Held

At Haas since 2000

• March 2021 – present, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate & Energy Economics, U.S. Department of the Treasury
• July 2019 – March 2021, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Chair of the Faculty
• 2018 – 2019, Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
• 2016 – present, Program Director, National Bureau of Economic Research’s Environment and Energy Economics Program
• 2013 – present, Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business
• 2013 – present, Faculty Director, The E2e Project
• 2009 – 2018, Faculty Director, Energy Institute at Haas
• 2005 – 2013, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business
• 2000 – 2005, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business
• 1996 – 2000, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University

External Service and Affiliations

• Faculty Scientist, Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
• Board of Editors, The Energy Journal

Selected Honors and Awards

• Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Evening MBA Program 2008
• Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
• Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Evening & Weekend MBA Program 2006