People
Staff & Leadership
- Heather Boushey Professor of Practice
- Sanya Carley Mark Alan Hughes Faculty Director
- Bill Cohen Associate Director
- Cornelia Colijn Executive Director
- Arwen Kozak Senior Research Coordinator
- Thabo Lenneiye Managing Director, Goldsmith Sustainable Agriculture Fund
- Angela Pachon Special Advisor
- Lindsey Samahon Communications Director
- Oscar Serpell Deputy Director
- Mollie Simon Senior Communications Specialist
- Andy Stone Energy Policy Now Host and Producer
- Kimberle Szczurowski Financial Administrative Coordinator
- Shelley Welton Presidential Distinguished Professor
- Jennifer Wilcox Presidential Distinguished Professor
Results
Phoebe Anagnos is a second-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences, majoring in both architecture and earth and environmental science. Anagnos is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Vanshika Arora is the Summer 2025 PEA/PGCC Fellow at the Kleinman Center. She is pursuing the Master of Environmental Studies program (MES ’25), focusing on finance and energy. Vanshika is a Kleinman Center Student Advisory Council Member.
Dorit Aviv is an assistant professor of architecture and director of the Thermal Architecture Lab at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, specializing in sustainability and environmental performance.
Parrish Bergquist is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. She studies the political determinants of environmental policy, in the U.S. and abroad, and is a faculty fellow at the Kleinman Center.
Susanna Berkouwer is an assistant professor of Business Economics & Public Policy at the Wharton School.
Aarit Bhatnagar is an undergraduate student studying economics and history. Bhatnagar is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Eugénie L. Birch is co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education, and chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning.
Fatih Birol is the executive director of the International Energy Agency. He is the recipient of the 2016 Carnot Prize for distinguished contributions to energy policy.
Paul Bonney is a member of the Kleinman Center Advisory Board and a former senior vice president at Exelon.
Heather Boushey is a professor of practice at the Kleinman Center. Boushey served in the Biden administration as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist to the President’s Investing in America cabinet.
Matthijs Bouw is an associate professor of practice in the Landscape Architecture department of the Weitzman School of Design. He is the Rockefeller Urban Resilience Fellow for the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
William W. Braham is a professor of architecture at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design. He is also the Director of the Center for Environmental Building + Design.
Mark Brownstein is a member of the Kleinman Center Advisory Board and the senior vice president of energy transition at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
William Burke-White is Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Burke-White, an international lawyer and political scientist, is a leading expert on U.S. foreign policy, multilateral institutions, and international law.
Sanya Carley is the Faculty Director of the Kleinman Center. She is also Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action at Penn and Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Stephanie Carlisle is a lecturer in Landscape Artchiture in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Elea Castiglione is an undergraduate student studying philosophy, politics, & economics. Castiglione is a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow and a research assistant with the Center. She is also a Kleinman Center Student Advisory Council Member.
Cary Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the Carey School of Law. He also is the director of the Penn Program on Regulation.
Bill Cohen is the associate director of operations, programming, and data analytics. He oversees financial and office operations, manages the center’s events and programming, and works closely with all staff to implement the center’s research strategy.
Cornelia Colijn is the executive director of the Kleinman Center. She envisions, plans, and manages all center programming, while building connections with students, faculty, and leaders in the energy industry.
Greg Cooney is a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center. He previously served as director of the policy and analysis division in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Carbon Management.
Dennis Culhane is the Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy in the School of Social Policy and Practice. He is a social science researcher with primary expertise in the area of homelessness and assisted housing policy.
Danny Cullenward is a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center. He is an economist and lawyer focused on the scientific integrity of climate policy with additional appointments at the Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal at American University and Google.
Makenna Damhorst is a third year student in earth and environmental science. Damhorst is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow. She conducts research with the Clean Energy Conversions Laboratory.
Tom Daniels is the Crossways Professor of city and regional planning at the Weitzman School. Daniels directs the concentration in Land Use and Environmental Planning.
Max Davis is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying philosophy, politics and economics with a minor in sustainability management. Davis is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Noah Deich is a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center. He recently left the Biden Administration, where he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Carbon Management at the Department of Energy.
Anjali Dhupam is a second-year in the Huntsman Program. Dhupam is a Kleinman Center Student Advisory Council Member and was also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Francis X. Diebold is Paul F. and Warren Shafer Miller Professor of Social Sciences, and Professor of Economics, Finance, and Statistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Akira Drake Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor of City Planning at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Her research examines the politics of urban planning.
Anya Draves is a physics major passionate about combating the climate crisis, with a deep love for applying analytical thinking to creative climate solution. Draves is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Emily Duncan is a member of the Kleinman Center Advisory Board and the senior vice president of federal affairs at American Electric Power.
Tulia Falleti is the Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, Director of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Program, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics.
Jared Farmer is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is a professor of economics and research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Penn's Population Studies Center, and a Research Affiliate for the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
Lance Freeman is the Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies how neighborhoods change and evolve over time, the role neighborhoods play in people’s lives.
Sika Gadzanku is a PhD student in the Weitzman School of Design's City and Regional Planning program. She is a Kleinman Center Student Advisory Council Member.
Reto Gieré is a professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and Center for Excellence in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Karen Goldberg is the Vagelos Professor of Energy Research and is the director of the Vagelos Institute of Energy Science and Technology (VIEST).
Carl Goldsmith is a donor to the Kleinman Center and the founding partner at Beach Point Capital Management.
Suria Gopal Crabtree is a fellow at the Kleinman Center. Her research interests include the intersection of energy access and climate change mitigation.
Piyush Goyal is a member of India’s upper house of parliament and serves as the minister of railways and coal. He is the 2018 recipient of the Carnot Prize for distinguished contributions to energy policy.
Erik Gribetz is a donor to the Kleinman Center and managing partner at Stonecourt Capital.
Erick Guerra is Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor in City and Regional Planning in the Weitzman School of Design.
Katie Harkless is a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center. She recently served as a senior leader at the U.S. Department of Energy, overseeing the $6.3 billion Industrial Demonstrations Program under the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations.
Alina Ho is a student studying systems science and engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She is the 2025 Kleinman Birol Fellow and the International Energy Agency.
Andrew Huemmler is a senior lecturer of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Mark Alan Hughes is director emeritus of the Kleinman Center. During his time as faculty director, he led the Center and wrote on topics ranging from deep decarbonization to the future of Philadelphia's energy landscape.
Heather Huntington is the executive director of the Penn Development Research Institute-DevLab. Her research interests include land tenure, land administration, natural resource management.
Andrew Jackson is a professor of practice in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Deep Jariwala is an associate professor of electrical systems engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Ben Keys is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
Steven Kimbrough is a professor of operation, information, and decision in the Wharton School.
Scott Kleinman (C’94, W’94), along with his wife Wendy Kleinman, established the Kleinman Center with a generous $10 million gift to the Stuart Weitzman School of Design. This founding gift continues to support the center and its broad array of programs.
Shimon Kogan is an adjunct associate professor in the Finance Deparement at The Wharton School.
Carolyn Kousky is a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center and the founder of Insurance for Good. She is also Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy at Environmental Defense Fund.
Arwen Kozak is senior research coordinator at the Kleinman Center. She assists with research and programming initiatives at Kleinman, working to support visiting scholars, students, and grant recipients.
Ken Kulak is a member of the Advisory Board and a former senior fellow at the Kleinman Center.
Alexander Kuplicki is a third-year student in the Huntsman Program studying operations information and decisions and chinese. Kuplicki is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Cheryl LaFleur is the former commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. She is the 2019 recipient of the Carnot Prize for distinguished contributions to energy policy.
Allison Lassiter is an assistant professor of city and regional planning at the Weitzman School of Design. Her work examines opportunities to use landscape infrastructure and emerging technologies to build resilience and increase adaptive capacity.
Steven Lefkowitz is a donor to the Kleinman Center and the founding partner at Sagewind Capital LLC.
Thabo Lenneiye is the managing director of the Sustainable Agriculture Fund. She's responsible for operationalizing the fund, launching initiatives focused on sustainable agriculture, and framing a research agenda that intersects with energy policy.
Daylia Lian is a second year student in the College of Arts and Sciences studying chemistry with minors in sustainability management and energy and sustainability. Lian is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Sarah Light is the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Professor, professor of legal studies & business ethics, and faculty co-director of the Wharton Climate Center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Zhongjie Lin is the Benjamin Z. Lin Presidential Professor of Urban Design at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, where he heads the Urban Design concentration and directs the Future Cities Initiative.
Kristina Lyons is an assistant professor of anthropology in the School of Arts and Sciences and the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) at the University of Pennsylvania.
Chenyi Ma is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Social Policy and Practice. His research aims to contribute to interdisciplinary knowledge of disaster risk reduction and sustainable development.
Kayla Main is a Research Assistant at the Kleinman Center. Through the Kleinman Center, she also works with Energia, an international network supporting gender equity and sustainable energy progress, and their partners, such as Solar Sister.
Thomas E. Mallouk is a Vagelos Professor in Energy Research and a Professor of Chemistry in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Rahul Mangharam is an associate professor of electrical and systems engineering in the School of Engineering and Applies Science.
Michael E. Mann is the Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science. He is a faculty fellow with the Kleinman Center and the director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media (PCSSM).
Ioana Marinescu is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Irina Marinov is a climate scientist and an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the department of Earth and Environmental Science.
Siva Mathiyazhagan is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Social Policy and Practice. He is also the Associate Director of Strategies and Impact at the SAFELab at Penn and RSM Assembly Fellows at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Samantha McBride is the William K. Gemmill Term Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Gina McCarthy is the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. She is the recipient of the 2017 Carnot Prize for distinguished contributions to energy policy.
Haley McKey is a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center. She is a carbon dioxide removal communications strategist with a passion for community engagement and responsible CDR deployment.
Ramón Méndez Galain is the Executive Director of Ivy and the former energy director of Uruguay. He is the recipient of the 2023 Carnot Prize for distinguished contributions to energy policy.
Laia Mogas-Soldevila is an Assistant Professor of Graduate Architecture and Director of DumoLab Research at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.
Scott Moore is a faculty fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and the Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives. He is also a practice professor of political science.
Ellen Neises is the executive director of PennPraxisand an adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture in the Weitzman School.
Serguei Netessine is Senior Vice Dean of Innovation and Global Initiatives and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at The Wharton School.
Oindriza Reza Nodi is a Master of City Planning student concentrating in Smart Cities at the Weitzman School. Nodi is the 2025 Kleinman Energia Fellow.
Sheila Oparaocha is the international coordinator and program manager at Energia. She is the recipient of the 2021 Carnot Prize for distinguished contributions to energy policy.
Angela Pachon is a special advisor to the Kleinman Center, in charge of designing and overseeing international programs and teaching. She was previously the Center's research director.
R. Jisung Park is an environmental and labor economist. He is a faculty fellow at the Kleinman Center and an assistant professor, with a primary appointment at the School of Policy and Practice and a secondary appointment at the Wharton School.
Thomas Parsons is the Marie A. Moore Professor of Animal Welfare and Ethics at the School of Veterinary Medicine, New Bolton Center. He directs the Center for Stewardship Agriculture and Food at PennVet.
Carnot Prize Winner
Jacqueline Patterson
Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project
Jacqueline Patterson is the founder and executive director of The Chisholm Legacy Project, a resource hub for Black frontline climate justice leadership. She is the recipient of the 2024 Carnot Prize and is a former senior fellow at the Kleinman Center.
Faculty Fellow, Penn Energy Expert
Nicholas Pevzner
Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
Nicholas Pevzner is a faculty fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Irene Antón Piolanti is from Madrid and plans to major in math and philosophy. Piolanti is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Dipti Pitta is an assistant professor in ruminant nutrition at the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Sonny Popowsky is a member of the Kleinman Center Advisory Board and served as the Consumer Advocate of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 2012.
John Quigley is a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center and previously served on the Center's Advisory Board. He served as Secretary of the PA Department of Environmental Protection and of the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Surina Ramoutar is a senior in the College majoring in environmental studies with a concentration in sustainability & environmental management. Ramoutar is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Laurel E. Redding is a associate professor of epidemiology at PennVet. She is also the director of the Human-Animal Health Interface at Penn Vet’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Safety.
Vincent Reina is an assistant professor of city and regional planning at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Nikolai Roussanov is the Moise Y. Safra Associate Professor of Finance in the Wharton School.
Megan Ryerson is the UPS Chair of Transportation and Associate Chair of City and Regional Planning at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Sebastian Ortiz Salazar is a sophomore studying Finance, ESGB-BEES, and Mathematics. Salazar is the 2025 Kleinman Apollo Fellow.
Lindsey Samahon is the director of communications at the Kleinman Center. She develops new content, prepares research for publication, and serves as the center's press contact.
Courtney Savage is a fourth-year undergraduate at Wharton, studying business analytics and marketing & operations management. Savage is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Solemei Scamaroni is a first-year student from Houston on track to study philosophy, politics, and economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. Scamaroni is a Student Advisory Council Member and was a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Marvin Schlanger is the former chairman of the Supervisory Board of UGI Corporation and a member of the Kleinman Center Advisory Board.
Benjamin Schmitt is a joint senior fellow at the Kleinman Center and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Penn. He is also an affiliate of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and associate of the Harvard-Ukrainian Research Institute.
Oscar Serpell oversees all student programming, alumni engagement, faculty and student grants, and visiting scholars. He is also a researcher, writer, and policy analyst working on research initiatives with students and Center partners.
Maddie Shenkan is a senior at Wharton studying Finance, AI and Policy. Shenkan was a Kleinman Apollo Fellow and worked within Apollo's Clean Transition Equity PE team during the summer of 2024.
Mollie Simon is the senior communications specialist at the Kleinman Center. She manages the center's social media accounts, drafts newsletters and announcements, writes and publishes content for our website, and regularly posts to our blog.
Cristian Solano is a research assistant at the Kleinman Center. He is a junior in the School of Engineering and Applied Science studying Materials Science and Engineering with an Energy and Sustainability Concentration, alongside Economics.
Ellery Spikes is planning to major in politics, policy and economics (PPE), and minor in sustainability and environmental management. Spikes is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Frederick Steiner is dean of the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design and a member of the Kleinman Center Advisory Board.
Nicholas Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the recipient of the 2022 Carnot Prize for distinguished contributions to energy policy.
Andy Stone is producer and host of Energy Policy Now, the Kleinman Center’s podcast series. He previously worked in business planning with PJM Interconnection and was a senior energy reporter at Forbes Magazine.
Kimberle Szczurowski is the financial administrative coordinator at the Kleinman Center. She keeps the Kleinman Center humming along, especially in the areas of budgeting, scheduling. and event planning.
Tobey Theiding is an undergraduate in the College of Arts & Sciences studying physics. Theiding is a Student Advisory Council Member and was 2025 Undergraduate Fellow.
Diego Tobon is a second-year student from Tampa, Florida on track to study finance & legal studies at The Wharton School. Tobon is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Franca Trubiano is Associate Professor of Graduate Architecture and a Registered Architect with l'Ordre des Architectes du Québec.
Madeline Tsao is a third-year in the Huntsman Program in international studies and business. Tsao is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Aline Uwase is a PhD student in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Uwase is a Kleinman Center Student Advisory Council Member.
Faculty Fellow, Penn Energy Expert
Arthur van Benthem
Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Arthur van Benthem is an expert in environmental and energy economics, exploring the economic efficiency of energy policy. He is a faculty fellow at the Kleinman Center and an associate professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at Wharton.
Steve Viscelli is a faculty fellow at the Kleinman Center and a lecturer in the Department of Sociology. His research focuses on work, labor market economics, and economic regulation, specifically in trucking industry.
Domenic Vitiello is an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the Weitzman School of Design.
Cady Wang is a senior majoring in economics with minors in environmental studies and English literature. Wang is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Shelley Welton is Presidential Distinguished Professor of Law and Energy Policy with the Kleinman Center and Penn Carey Law. Her research focuses on how climate change is transforming energy and environmental law and governance.
Erik Wibbels is a Penn Compact Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the co-director of PDRI/DevLab@Penn.
Bethany Wiggin is a Professor of German and the Founding Director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. Her research spans fields usually held apart: early modern German and Atlantic cultural history, and the environmental humanities.
Jen Wilcox is Presidential Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy. She previously served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management at the Department of Energy.
Linda Wu is the Sustainable Agriculture Fund Research Associate. She is pursuing a dual degree in Wharton and in the College of Arts and Sciences. Wu was also a 2022 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Shu Yang is a professor of materials science and engineering and a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Angela Ye is a senior studying earth and environmental science with minors in sustainability management and legal studies. Ye is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Daniel Yergin is the Vice Chairman of IHS Markit. He is the recipient of the 2015 Carnot Prize for distinguished contributions to energy policy.
Tommy Zeng is a fourth-year student studying political science with a concentration in international relations. He is a Student Advisory Council Member and a former Undergraduate Fellow.
Claire Zhang is a fourth-year student in the VIPER dual-degree program pursuing majors in bioengineering and biology. Zhang is also a 2025 Undergraduate Student Fellow.