Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. From March 2021 to October 2022, she held the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the U.S. Treasury, during which she was on leave from UC Berkeley. In March 2025, she was appointed to the COP30 Ad Hoc Council of Economists and chaired a working group on climate coalitions. After leaving government service, she became the Program Director of the Environment and Energy Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Affiliate at the Energy Institute at Haas. Dr. Wolfram's research focuses on energy markets, particularly the analysis of rural electrification programs in the developing world, energy efficiency programs, and the effects of environmental regulation on energy markets. She is currently involved in projects that address the intersection of climate, energy, and trade, including work on carbon border adjustment mechanisms and oil market sanctions. Dr. Wolfram earned her PhD in economics from MIT in 1996 and her AB from Harvard in 1989.