# Catherine Wolfram Professor of Energy Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ![Catherine Wolfram](/sites/g/files/omnuum8116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/heep/files/wolfram_small.jpg?itok=rfETup9r) email [cwolfram@mit.edu ]() Catherine Wolfram is a Professor of Energy Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was previously the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley – and was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Chair of the Faculty at Berkeley Haas (2019-21). Wolfram was Visiting Raymond Plank Professor at Harvard Kennedy School during Spring 2023. She served in 2021-22 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Wolfram was the Program Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Environment and Energy Economics Program from 2016-2021. 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 studying the economics of global climate cooperation as well as the price cap on Russian oil. 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. - ## People Type [Associate Scholars](/people-terms/associate-scholars)