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Karl Hausker

Adjunct Fellow (Non-resident)

Expertise:

Environmental policy; energy and natural resource policy; climate change.

Contact:

(202) 412-5972
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Karl Hausker is an adjunct fellow at CSIS and vice president at ICF International. His career has spanned government, research institutions, and consulting in the fields of climate change, environment, and energy. From 2004 to 2006, he was deputy director of the Center for Climate Strategies. From 2000 to 2003, he was a managing consultant with PA Consulting Group (formerly Hagler Bailly). In 1999, he was a senior visiting fellow at the Tata Energy Research Institute in New Delhi, India, where his research focused on climate change and on air and water pollution problems facing India’s major cities. From 1995 to 1998, he was senior fellow and director of the CSIS Enterprise for the Environment, a consensus-building project on environmental policy. From 1993 to 1995, he served as deputy assistant administrator of the Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where his responsibilities included agency-wide strategic planning, policy analysis, and regulatory management. In addition, he led the agency’s programs on climate change and on trade and the environment. From 1987 to 1992, he was the chief economist for the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hausker received a B.A. in economics from Cornell University and an M.P.P and Ph.D. in public policy from the University of California at Berkeley. He contributes to such publications as the Environmental Law Reporter, Environmental Forum, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Policy Sciences, Journal of Consumer Policy, Journal of Energy and Development, and Public Utilities Fortnightly.

 
 

 

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