CETEP Faculty, Experts, and Staff
CETEP Faculty
Jilleah Welch
Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
Specialties: Public Finance; Economics of Education; Environmental Economics
Charles B. Sims
TVA Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy; Director, CETEP
Specialties: Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, Energy Economics, Public Health, Decision Theory
Joe Hoagland
Adjunct Professor
Specialties: Energy and Environmental Policy and Stakeholder Engagement
Benjamin Leard
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Transportation Policy and Decarbonization Strategies
CETEP Experts
Noah Ankar
Affiliate
Specialties: Energy; Sustainability; Transportation; and Logistics
Paul Armsworth
Fellow
Specialties: Ecology; Conservation Science; and Mathematical Modeling
Neeraj Bharadwaj
Affiliate
Specialties: Sustainability, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG); marketing sustainability
Candace Brakewood
Affiliate
Specialties: Transportation policy; shared mobility; public transportation; intelligent transportation systems
Seong-Hoo Cho
Fellow
Specialties: Environmental and resource economics, agricultural and forested lands, ecosystem services, conservation science, climate change and natural resources, non-market valuation
Courtney Cronley
Expert
Specialties: Inclusive infrastructure with emphasis on historically marginalized persons, housing insecurity, evictions, transportation equity, energy justice, broadband internet access, environmental justice and sustainability
Maggie Davis
Affiliate
Specialties: Energy economics; environmental sciences; policy tradeoffs for land management
Rebecca Efroymson
Affiliate
Specialties: Sustainability of biofuels; policy engagement related to climate science; decarbonization; climate adaptation
David Greene
Research Professor and Senior Fellow
Specialties: Transportation and Energy Issues; Alternative Fuels; Fuel Economy; and Costs of Oil Dependence
Lorna Greening
Fellow
Specialties: Energy economics and energy policymaking processes
Jamie Grieg
Fellow
Specialties: Broadband Communications and Digital Technology in Rural and Agricultural Settings
J. Scott Holladay
Fellow
Specialties: International Trade and Environmental Economics
Bandana Kar
Affiliate
Specialties: Energy and climate resilience policy; energy security; use of AI and Big Data in the energy sector
Jacob LaRiviere
Fellow
Specialties: Industrial Organization and Environmental Economics
Nikki Luke
Fellow
Specialties: Urban Geography; Energy and Labor Politics; Energy and Environmental Justice
David McCollum
Fellow
Specialties: Energy-Economic Systems Modeling; Advanced Energy and Transport Technologies; Integrated Assessment; and Global Change
Andrew Muhammad
Affiliate
Specialties: Climate change and international trade; global food security, food choice and global nutrition; supply chains in developing countries; trade policy and commodity markets
Matthew Murray
Professor and Executive Director Emeritus of the Baker Center
Specialties: Public Finance; Public Policy; Economic Development
Mirko Musa
Affiliate
Specialties: • Sustainable Water Power Technologies; Decarbonization; Hydraulic Engineering; Water Resources Management; River Mechanics
John Nolt
Fellow
Specialties: Environmental Ethnics, Intergenerational Ethics, Climate Ethics, Philosophical Logic, and Formal Value Theory
Alex Osei-Kojo
Affiliate
Specialties: Environmental and Energy Policy; Policy Process
Deborah Penchoff
Fellow
Specialties: High Performance Computing; Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Nuclear and Radio-Chemistry; and Rare Earth Elements
Jay Price
Affiliate
Specialties: Land use planning and policy; sustainable transportation; decarbonization; circular economy
John Schwartz
Affiliate
Specialties: Watershed Hydrology; Water Quality; River Mechanics; Stream Restoration; and Ecological Engineering
Gabe Schwartzman
Affiliate
Specialties: Sustainable rural economic development; decarbonization and energy transition
Aaron Smith
Affiliate
Specialties: Climate-smart agriculture; production economics; domestic agricultural policy
Bruce Tonn
Fellow
Specialties: Environmental and Energy Policy; Future Studies; Sustainability; Climate Change; Decision-making under Uncertainty; Technology Policy; and Computers in Society
Christian Vossler
Fellow
Specialties: Environmental Economics; Public Economics; Applied Econometrics; and Experimental Economics
Emeritus CETEP Experts
- Mary English – Fellow
- William Park – Fellow
- Robert Shelton – Fellow
CETEP Staff
Alecia Evans
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Specialties: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; Energy Economics; Experimental Economics; Industrial Organization