Kenneth Gillingham is an Associate Professor at Yale University and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
In 2015-2016, he served as the Senior Economist for Energy and the Environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, where he provided economic guidance on the design of major energy policies. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from the fields of applied microeconomics, behavioral economics, industrial organization, and integrated assessment modeling of climate change. He has published widely on consumer decisions and policy in transportation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. His work has been published in top-tier journals across a range of fields,
including economics, science, and management and he is on the editorial boards of the Energy Journal and Energy Efficiency.
Prior to joining the Yale faculty, he worked at the California Air Resources Board, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Stanford Energy Modeling Forum, Resources for the Future, and Joint Global Change Research Institute of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to New Zealand. His Ph.D. is from Stanford University, where he studied management science & engineering and economics. Before beginning a career as an economist, he was a wilderness ranger in Wyoming and New Hampshire.