Anna Alberini

Anna Alberini received her PhD in economics from the University of California San Diego. She is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics at UMD. She currently teaches PhD-level econometrics and an undergraduate course on the economics of climate change, and supervises numerous graduate and undergraduate research projects. She is an energy economist and an environmental economist with a major focus on the economics of health and safety and non-market valuation. Her energy economics research focuses on residential energy demand; energy efficiency decisions and consequences of such decisions; policies targeted as shaping residential energy demand; the response to energy prices and energy price shocks; the effects on renewable energy and trading on electricity markets; vehicle fuel economy, driving decisions and the use of incentives to the adoption of efficient and/or electric vehicles. Alberini is currently an editor of Energy Economics, a member of the Editorial Boards of The Energy Journal, Transportation Research Part A and Transportation Research Part D, and a member of the International Advisory Board of Energy Policy. She has served on the American Statistical Association’s Advisory Committee to the US Energy Information Administration, and done two stints on the US EPA Science Advisory Board—Environmental Economics.