Leadership & Staff

Director

Richard G. Newell, Ph.D.

Dr. Richard G. Newell is the Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University and Director of Duke's university-wide Energy Initiative. In 2009, he was confirmed by the Senate as the head of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the agency responsible for official U.S. government energy statistics and analysis, where he served until 2011. Dr. Newell has also served as the Senior Economist for energy and environment on the President's Council of Economic Advisors. He is on the Board of Directors and is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, where he was previously a Senior Fellow. He is a Research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has provided expert advice and consulted with many private, governmental, non-governmental, and international institutions.

Dr. Newell has published widely on the economics of markets and policies for energy, the environment, and related technologies, including incentives for technological innovation and adoption. He has served on numerous boards and National Academy of Sciences (NAS) expert committees related to energy, environment, and innovation, including NAS committees on Energy R&D, Innovation Inducement Prizes, Energy Externalities, and Energy Efficiency. He has also participated in the National Petroleum Council (NPC) studies on the Future of Transportation Fuels, the North American Resource Base, and Global Oil and Gas. Dr. Newell holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a M.P.A. from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a B.S. and B.A. from Rutgers University.

Phone: 919-681-8663

richard.newell@duke.edu

Advisory Committees

The Energy Initiative currently has two Advisory Committees to help guide, coordinate, and implement its efforts.

Executive Advisory Committee comprised of the Director of the Energy Initiative; the Provost; the Deans of Business, Engineering, Environment, Law, Public Policy, Arts and Sciences, and Natural Sciences; and the Director of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. The current participants are Richard Newell, Peter Lange, Bill Boulding, Tom Katsouleas, Bill Chameides, David Levi, Bruce Kuniholm, Laurie Patton, Robert Calderbank, and Tim Profeta.

Faculty Advisory Committee, with faculty representatives from each of the key University elements. The initial focus of the committee will be to develop, coordinate, and promote a shared set of energy courses and programs, and energy faculty hiring at Duke. The current participants are David Beratan (Chemistry), Emily Klein (Environment), Rick Larrick (Business), Brian Murray (Nicholas Institute), Billy Pizer (Public Policy), Lincoln Pratson (Environment), Chris Timmins (Economics), George Truskey (Engineering), and Jonathan Wiener (Law).