Trissanne Keen is a Ph.D. candidate in Strategy at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Her research examines how firms navigate the promises and pitfalls of the global energy transition, focusing on the electric vehicle and lithium-ion battery ecosystem. Integrating micro-level analyses of stakeholder perceptions with macro-level studies of firm strategy and industrial policy, her work sheds light on how companies manage competing pressures in emerging sustainable industries and the global critical-minerals supply chains that underpin them. Her research is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Strategic Management Society’s Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant. 

Curriculum Vitae

Before joining Ross, Trissanne was a Research Economist in the Executive Office of the Governor of Florida. She was the lead analyst for forecasting state revenues for transportation tax sources. Preceding her role as a Research Economist, she was a  Florida Gubernatorial Fellow working in the Office of Policy and Budget. Trissanne graduated summa cum laude from Florida State University, receiving a Bachelor's and Master of Science degree in Finance. She was also a recipient of the United States David L. Boren Awards,  receiving full funding to study Akan Twi in Ghana, West Africa, where she also interned with non-profit organizations on a microfinance initiative supporting women and a project aimed at combating child labor and human trafficking in rural fishing communities.