Richard G Newell

Bio and Research:

Richard G. Newell is the Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, where he was previously a Senior Fellow. He has served as the Senior Economist for energy and environment on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he advised on policy issues ranging from automobile fuel economy and renewable fuels to management of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. He currently serves on the boards of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the journal Energy Economics, the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and the Automotive X-Prize. He has also been a member of expert committees including the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee on Energy R&D, NAS committee on Innovation Inducement Prizes, and NAS committee on Energy Efficiency, the 2007 National Petroleum Council Global Oil and Gas Study, and the American Physical Society study of energy efficiency. He has served as an independent expert reviewer and advisor for many governmental, non-governmental, international, and private institutions including the OECD, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, World Bank, National Commission on Energy Policy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and others.

Professor Newell’s research centers on the economics of markets and policies for the environment, energy, and related technologies, particularly the cost and effectiveness of alternatives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving other environmental and energy goals. Economic analysis of market-based policies, technology policies, and the influence of markets and policy on technology innovation and adoption are important themes in his work. He has published in major economics journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and has contributed articles for widely disseminated publications such as “Technological Change and the Environment” for the Handbook of Environmental Economics and “Economics of Energy Efficiency” for the Encyclopedia of Energy. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Master in Public Affairs (M.P.A.) from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a B.S. and B.A. from Rutgers University.