Affiliated Academics
Peter H. Larsen
Areas of Expertise/Interest:
- Environmental, engineering and energy economics
- Quantitative analysis of markets
- Environmental policy analysis
- SAS programming
- Risk analysis
Biographical Statement:
Peter H. Larsen is a visiting professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy and a senior scientific engineering associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His primary research areas include analysis of the U.S. energy sector and estimating economic damages from climate change.
Previously, Peter served as a senior policy advisor and then Alaska climate change program manager for The Nature Conservancy. In 2005, Larsen was recruited to the Institute of Social and Economic Research in Anchorage, Alaska to build the first defensible model of future economic impacts of rapid climate change for Alaska. In 2004, Larsen was hired as a term economist in the Societal Impacts Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) where he studied the sensitivity of the U.S. economy to weather variability. Peter also worked as a senior associate for Stratus Consulting where he conducted applied economics research on many diverse topics including wholesale electricity market monitoring in New England, U.S. energy efficiency standards, and climate change impacts on the country of Nepal.
Peter has taught university-level courses at The University of Montana, Cornell University, The University of Alaska, and this fall will be co-teaching a public policy course at The University of California at Berkeley. Peter’s research has been featured (or been referred to) in the New York Times, USA Today, National Public Radio, Environmental Science and Technology, and other media outlets within the United States and abroad.
Peter holds an M.S. in natural resource economics from Cornell University and a B.A. in economics from the University of Montana-Missoula.
