Angela Pachon

Staff

Director of Global Initiatives

Angela Pachon is an internationally experienced energy economist whose work bridges energy policy, regulation, climate policy, and sustainable development across academic, public-sector, and consulting environments. She serves as the director of global initiatives at the Kleinman Center, where she advances the Center’s international engagement in energy and climate policy research and education. Her work focuses on designing and implementing international programs and learning opportunities, teaching comparative global energy policy, connecting students, scholars, and policy leaders across regions, and developing internal and external partnerships that strengthen the Center’s global reach. She also contributes strategic guidance to the Center’s research and public-facing agenda, with an emphasis on translating academic expertise into policy-relevant impact. In addition, she serves as an advisor to the Goldsmith Sustainable Agriculture Fund, supporting work at the intersection of sustainability, development, and climate-resilient systems.

Pachon previously served as an external advisor to the Center and, for ten years, as its founding research director, establishing and managing research grants, visiting scholar programs, and leading the editorial direction of the Center’s publications. She developed scholarship and research collaborations across campus and beyond.

She is the author and editor of various Center publications. Her research has examined electricity markets in the United States, gas policies in Pennsylvania, and climate policies in Latin America. Prior to joining the Kleinman Center, Pachon worked as a policy advisor at the Ontario Energy Board, where she developed incentive regulation for electricity and gas utilities and assessed the impacts of rates and affordability measures on the implementation of feed-in tariffs. She also worked at NERA Economic Consulting in London, leading electricity-sector reform projects across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.