When Ananya Kotia was 16 and living in Delhi, the Indian economy took off. With it went his interest in economics. That interest has taken Kotia from Cambridge and Oxford universities to the International Monetary Fund, India’s Ministry of Finance, and, now, EPIC. He plans to get a PhD in economics and wants to one day apply his knowledge to economic and development issues in his native India. Read more…
Nadia Lucas entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) intending to earn an engineering degree. Late in her undergraduate career, she realized that economics is what she really wanted to do. Lucas, who eventually plans to get a PhD in economics, said she was attracted to EPIC because of its research reputation. Read more…
Kevin Schwarzwald has spent the last seven years building his research skills at the University of Chicago. Schwarzwald, who earned bachelor’s degrees in physics and public policy (with honors) from UChicago in 2015, is working to foster collaboration and dialogue between the climate science and social science/economics fields as an RA for EPIC. Read more…
Despite being from Houston, Texas, the so-called ‘energy capital of America,’ Andrew Smith hadn’t been all that interested in energy—or economics, for that matter. “Eventually, I realized that whim turned into something great,” Smith said, as he realized that economics is his true calling. He plans to pursue a PhD in economics and would like to become a professor. Read more…
A native of Guangzhou, China, Yuqi Song has continued to develop her research skills since coming to America in 2010. Along the way, she realized she wants to find policy solutions to major environmental and energy issues through economic research, with particular attention to her native land. That makes Song’s position as a research assistant on EPIC Director Michael Greenstone’s Social Cost of Carbon team a natural fit. Read more…
As a high schooler, Zhang thought he would become an engineer. It wasn’t until his sophomore year at Swarthmore College that he realized economics could be an avenue for studying and finding solutions for environmental issues – leading him to his current position at EPIC. Zhang works on a variety of environmental economics and policy projects for EPIC Director Michael Greenstone. Read more…