Karen Fisher-Vanden

Karen Fisher-Vanden is Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Public Policy at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Fisher-Vanden holds a B.S in Mathematics/Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics both from UC Davis, a M.S. in Management Science from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University. She was a Lead Author of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report Working Group III, and a previous member of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Product Development Advisory Committee and lead author of a congressionally-mandated CCSP report on global change scenarios. She is President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) where she previously served on the Board of Directors, and was a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board on Economy-wide modeling. Her areas of research include economic and integrated assessment modeling for climate change impacts and policy analysis. She has led a number of large externally-funded research programs and is currently co-Director and Principal Investigator of the Program on Coupled Human and Earth Systems (PCHES), a large Cooperative Research Agreement with the US Department of Energy.