Dr. Karen Clay

Biography

Karen Clay is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. She also holds courtesy appointments in the Tepper School of Business and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. Clay has been a Senior Fellow at the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon since 2018 and is an affiliated faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Her research has received support from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Sloan Foundation, and her work has been published in prestigious journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the American Economic Review. Prior to her current position at Carnegie Mellon, she served as an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. Throughout her academic career, Clay has held several significant roles including Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, focusing on Energy and Environmental Economics. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School.

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