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Bio

I am an Economist within the Economics Team (subscribe to our Newsletter) at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and editor of EDF's Economics Discussion Paper (EDP) series. I am also a member of the Climate Action Teams (CAT) initiative and the Multi-Country Electricity Transition (MCET) network. Previously, I was a Post-doctoral Fellow, Labor Economist at EDF. 

Before joining EDF, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF). I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU). Before that time, I worked as a Policy Advisor at the Mexican Ministry of Finance (SHCP).

My background combines Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics, and quantitative economy-wide modeling. My current research focuses on Environmental Economics from a Macroeconomics perspective. Much of my work relates to understanding the effects of implementing carbon pricing or other environmental policies on the economy as a whole and the labor market. 

Recently, I have been focusing on power system transformations, their labor market implications, and the broader economic impacts of clean energy policies. I have also started to work on understanding the effects of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in developing countries.

What's new

Our research project "Power-to-X Pathways for a Decarbonized Energy Future: An Integrated Analysis and Decision-Making Framework" received 2025 Innovation for Impact funding from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Environmental Defense Fund joint research program. This collaborative work, led by Lindsay Anderson (Cornell University), Jerry Murphy (University College of Cork), and Tom Brindle, integrates detailed sectoral and chemical process modeling of Power-to-X technologies into the SWITCH power system capacity expansion platform, enabling more accurate cost comparisons across e-fuel pathways for hard-to-abate sectors.  

On October 14, 2025, I will host the MCET Pre-COP 30 Seminar - Americas Session on clean energy transitions in Latin America as part of our Environmental Defense Fund Economics Seminar Series. Our network work connects directly to understanding how energy policy design affects economic transitions and equity, critical as we approach COP 30. Register here. 

My comment "Overcoming five key challenges to make the energy transition a just labor transition," with Sharan Burrow, Shouvik Chakraborty, Reza Daniels, Alan Finkelstein Shapiro, Helena Garcia, Raphael Heffron, Michael Jakob, Markus Janser, Suzi Kerr, Catherine Leining, Dave Maré, Mauro Pucheta, Daniel Raimi, Mandy Rambharos, Euan Richardson, Marcela Tarazona, and Alessio Terzi,  is now published in Nature Communications. I'll be speaking about this work at the EDF Economics Seminar on October 30, 11 AM ET, alongside co-authors Alan Finkelstein Shapiro (Tufts University), Daniel Raimi (Resources for the Future), and Michael Jakob (Climate Transitions Economics). Register here. 

I participated as a panelist in EAERE 2025: Science-Policy-Business Session entitled “How climate policies are shaping the future of the labour market”  in Bergen on June 16. 

I have three recent EDF's Market Forces blog posts: 

1. "From model to policy: Building a climate connection between modelers across the world" with Francisco Pinto and Catherine Leining, August 2025.

2. "The Economic Case for Preserving Clean Energy Tax Incentives" with Jeremy Proville and Aurora Barone, May 2025.

3. "Texas can create 150,000 jobs by plugging non-producing wells" with Maureen Lackner (cited by the Houston Chronicle), April 2025.

I participated as a panelist in the AERE virtual panel: "Mind Matters: Managing stress, expectations, and health in grad school (poster)" on Feb 17, 2025!

I presented my paper "Carbon Taxation, Green Jobs, and Sectoral Human Capital" at AERE@EEA 2025. Also, I discussed "Tourism, economic development, and land use change" by Manuel Linsenmeier.