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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.
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.
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.
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.
Stephanie Carlisle is a lecturer in Landscape Artchiture in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
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.
Danny Cullenward is a Shleifer Senior Fellow at the Kleinman Center. He is an economist and lawyer focused on the scientific integrity of climate policy.
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is the Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as director of the Penn Initiative for the Study of the Markets at Penn.
Stephen Hammer is a senior fellow in climate finance. He advises governments and international institutions on climate finance and policy issues and has more than 30 years of experience working on climate issues at the global, national, and local levels.
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.
John Kerry is a long-time advocate for a just and sustainable energy transition. He is a former U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and Presidential Climate Envoy. Kerry is the recipient of the 2026 Carnot Prize.
Carolyn Kousky is a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center and the founder and executive director of Insurance for Good. She is also a contributing economist at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Leslie Labruto is a Shleifer Senior Fellow at the Kleinman Center. She is CEO of Resolve Fund, an effort to build an ecosystem of working capital finance for companies building future systems in energy, agriculture, mobility, and industrials.
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.
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.
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 a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice with secondary appointments in the Economics Department and the Wharton School of Business (BEPP).
Irina Marinov is a climate scientist and an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the department of Earth and Environmental Science.
Scott Moore is a faculty fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and Managing Director of Global Initiatives, Research, and Strategy. He is also a practice professor of political science.
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.
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.
Megan Ryerson is the UPS Chair of Transportation and Associate Chair of City and Regional Planning at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
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.
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.
Faculty Fellow, Penn Energy Expert
Arthur van Benthem
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 professor of business economics and public policy at Wharton.
Erik Wibbels is the Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Political Science and co-director of PDRI-DevLab at the University of Pennsylvania. He is part of the Machine Learning for Peace project.
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.
Ali Zaidi is a professor of practice in Penn Engineering. He is the former White House National Climate Advisor to President Joe Biden and a leading architect of the Administration’s climate, energy, and industrial policy agenda.