Former HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow Richard Newell was named the next president of Resources for the Future (RFF) on May 23, 2016. RFF, in Washington, D.C., is one of the world’s leading institutions conducting economic research and analysis to improve environmental and natural resource policy.
Richard received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University; was appointed by President Obama to serve as Administrator of the Energy Information Administration in 2009, where he served for two years; and is currently Gendell Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. His appointment at RFF is effective September 1, 2016.
Professor Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, served as chairman of Richard’s Ph.D. dissertation committee at the Harvard Kennedy School, and is a member of the RFF Board of Directors. Stavins commented that “Current RFF President Phil Sharp leaves very big shoes to fill, but Richard Newell is more than up to this challenge. In many ways, he is the ideal individual to take on the leadership of this important Washington institution.”
For more information, see RFF’s press release on Richard’s appointment.
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