Placement: PhD Public Policy, Chicago Harris | NSF Awardee

Qing (Claire) Fan was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow with the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), where she worked for Director Michael Greenstone on a variety of energy and environmental economics projects. She earned her bachelor’s in mathematics with a minor in economics in 2018 from Pomona College in California. While at Pomona, Claire conducted a field study on attitudes toward sustainable agriculture in farming communities in Punjab, India, and worked on research in applied mathematics and on the economics of social enterprise. Claire is interested in the intersection of environmental and development economics, including the social impacts of climate change, and food and agriculture.