Billy Pizer, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Economics and Environment, Sanford School; and Faculty Fellow, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions  

Office Location: 190 Rubenstein Hall
Office Phone: (919) 613-9286
Duke Box: 90312
Email Address: billy.pizer@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Environment and Energy
    • Climate Change
    • Environmental Law, Regulation and Policy

Education:
PhD, Harvard University, 1996
MA, Harvard University, 1996
BS, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1990

Office Hours:
4-5pm Tuesday
2:30-4pm Wednesday

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. William A. Pizer, Harrison Fell and Ian MacKenzie. "Prices versus quantities versus bankable quantities.." Resource and Energy Economics. (2012).
  2. William A. Pizer and Lee Branstetter.. "Facing the Climate Change Challenge in a Global Economy." Globalization in an Age of Crisis. Ed. Robert Feenstra and Alan Taylor University of Chicago Press, forthcoming
  3. William A. Pizer, Richard Morgenstern and Jhih-Shyang Shih. "The Performance of Industrial Sector Voluntary Climate Programs: Climate Wise and 1605 (b)." Energy Policy. (2011).
  4. William A. Pizer, Michael Batz and Jim Sanchirico. "Regional Patterns of Household Carbon Emissions." Climatic Change 99.1-2 (2010): 47-63.
  5. William A. Pizer, Daniel Hall, Michael Levi & Takahiro Ueno. "Policies for Developing Country Engagement." Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Implementing Architectures for Agreement. Ed. Joseph Aldy & Robert Stavins Cambridge University Press, 2010

Curriculum Vitae

Bio/Profile
Billy Pizer joined the faculty of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University in the fall of 2011 to help design and lead a university-wide initiative in energy and the environment.

He also was appointed a faculty fellow in the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, a nonpartisan institute at Duke that focuses on finding solutions to some of the nation's most pressing environmental challenges.

From 2008 to 2011, Pizer was deputy assistant secretary for environment and energy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he created and led a new office responsible for the department’s role in the domestic and international environment and energy agenda of the United States. He had served as senior economist for the environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2002.

Pizer was a senior fellow and research director at Resources for the Future (RFF), a nonpartisan think tank. His research during 12 years at RFF often related to global climate change and examined how the design of environmental policy affects costs and effectiveness. In 2007 and 2008, he was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Climate Change Task Force.

Pizer's academic experience includes visiting professorships at The Johns Hopkins University (1997-1999) and Stanford University (2000-2001). He has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed articles, as well as numerous other articles, reports and book chapters.

Pizer earned his Ph.D. and master’s degrees in economics at Harvard University in 1996 and a bachelor’s degree in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1990. He is a member of the UNC Institute for the Environment board of visitors.

Billy Pizer