CETEP Faculty, Experts, and Staff
CETEP Faculty

Charles B. Sims
TVA Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy; Director, Center for Energy, Transportation, and Environmental Policy
Specialties: Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, Energy Economics, Public Health, Decision Theory

Andrew Balthrop
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Supply Chain Policy, Freight Transportation, and Trucking

Dale Manning
Associate Professor
Specialties: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Policy, Natural Resource Valuation, Natural Resources, and Livelihoods

David McCollum
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Energy-Economic Systems Modeling; Advanced Energy and Transport Technologies; Integrated Assessment; and Global Change

Joe Hoagland
Adjunct Professor
Specialties: Energy & Environmental Policy, Stakeholder Engagement


Jack Mewhirter
Associate Professor
Specialties: Public Policy and Policy Process

Benjamin Leard
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Transportation Policy, Decarbonization Strategies

Matthew Murray
Professor and Executive Director Emeritus of the Baker Center
Specialties: Public Finance, Public Policy, Economic Development

Timothy Fitzgerald
Visiting Associate Professor
Specialties: Natural Resource Economics and Energy Economics

Jilleah Welch
Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
Specialties: Public Finance, Economics of Education, Environmental Economics
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

Gary Brinkworth
Affiliate
Specialties: energy economics, grid decarbonization, strategic planning under uncertainty, power system resource optimization, reliability and resiliency assessment

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




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


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

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

Bhartendu Pandey
Affiliate
Specialties: Urbanization; infrastructure; global environmental change; complex systems

Gabriela Perez-Quesada
Affiliate
Specialties: Impact of water scarcity and climate change on agricultural production; role of policy in agricultural producer decision making


Jay Price
Affiliate
Specialties: Land use planning and policy; sustainable transportation; decarbonization; circular economy

Tim Roberson
Affiliate
Specialties: Energy Economics; Energy Economics; Energy Markets; Industrial Organization

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

Andrew Hutchens
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Specialties: Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, and Industrial Organization

