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Please see the release below about our newest Energy & Environment Fellow!
UT's Baker Center Names Greening, of Chattanooga, an Energy Fellow
KNOXVILLE—Lorna Greening, an independent economic consultant and
researcher based in Chattanooga, Tenn., has been named a fellow in energy
and environmental policy at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at
the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Greening has more than 30 years of experience in the energy industry, including
consulting, research, academia, the public utility industry and the petroleum
industry as an exploration geologist. Her research interests include energy and
natural resource economics, greenhouse gas mitigation and regulation policies.
"Dr. Greening will prove to be an important asset to the Baker Center as we
strive to increase our policy research footprint in the areas of energy and
environmental policy," Director Matt Murray said.
As part of her appointment, which is not a paid position, Greening will help
foster interdisciplinary funded research with Baker Center fellows and UT
faculty. She also will assist with grant writing.
Greening is a co-editor of Energy Policy, an international peer-reviewed journal,
and associate editor and a member of the board of Energy Economics, one of
the 50 top-ranked economics journals. She has published in a variety of energy
publications.
Greening received her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a
doctorate in economics from the Colorado School of Mines.
The Baker Center's other fellows include David Bjornstad, retired research
professor of economics and staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jim
Campbell, former editor of The Oak Ridger and president of the East Tennessee
Economic Council; Mary English, retired from UT's Institute for a Secure and
Sustainable Environment; David Greene, research professor of economics and
retired corporate fellow at ORNL; Howard Hall, Governor's Chair, professor and
director of UT's Institute for Nuclear Security; J. Scott Holladay, assistant
professor of economics; Jacob LaRiviere, assistant professor of economics;
Michael Price, formerly of UT and now an associate professor of economics at
the University of Georgia; Brandon Prins, associate professor of political
science; John Scheb, professor and head of the political science department;
Robert Shelton, retired research professor of economics and ORNL researcher;
Charles Sims, assistant professor of economics; Bruce Tonn, professor of
political science and ORNL researcher; and Christian Vossler, associate
professor of economics.
For more information, please visit http://www.bakercenter.utk.edu.
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