Catherine Wolfram
Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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. Her current interests include the impact of the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) on Mozambique, policy spillovers from the EU CBAM, border adjustments for methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, and the price cap on Russian oil.
From March 2021 to October 2022, Wolfram was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the U.S. Treasury. Before joining the faculty at MIT, she was the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. She has also served as Program Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Environment and Energy Economics Program. Wolfram holds a PhD in Economics from MIT.