Curriculum Vitae

Education

Northwestern University Director, Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics (IRLE), Center on Law, Business, and Economics · June 2023–presentFaculty Affiliate, Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy · October 2023–presentAdjunct Professor, Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy · September 2020–present
University of Colorado Denver Research Professor, College of Engineering, Design & Computing · June 2021–present
Santa Fe Institute External Faculty; co-director, Electricity Working Group · August 2023–present
American Enterprise Institute Nonresident Senior Fellow · February 2023–present
Pacing Energy Co-Founder · July 2025–present
Abundance Institute Fellow · February 2023–present
Knowledge Problem LLC President · January 2019–present

Co-Director, Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics, Northwestern University · 2018–2023
Visiting Professor, Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University · 2019–2021
Visiting Associate Professor, Economics, Purdue University · 2017–2019
Associate Professor of Instruction, Economics, Northwestern University · 2010–2017
Director, Electricity Policy Program, Searle Center, Northwestern University · 2016–2017
Visiting Senior Lecturer (sabbatical), Political Economy, King's College London · 2014–2015
Director of Economic Policy, Reason Foundation · 2001–2003
Assistant Professor of Economics, College of William and Mary · 1992–1996

Lone Mountain Fellowship, Property & Environment Research Center · 2017
Invited Classical Liberalism Speaker, Whitman College · 2016–2017
ISEN Booster Grant, Institute for Sustainability and Energy, Northwestern University · 2014–2015
Research Grant, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University · 2008
Research Grants, International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics · 2003, 2005, 2006
Research Grants, Searle Fund for Policy Research · 2003–2007
Gerschenkron Prize Nominee, Economic History Association · 1994