Catherine Wolfram is new director of Environment and Energy Economics Program.

• Position: NBER News

Catherine Wolfram, the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, is now director of the Environment and Energy Economics Program. A member of the Berkeley faculty since 2000, Wolfram received her A.B. from Harvard and her Ph.D. from MIT. She was an assistant professor at Harvard for several years before moving to Berkeley.

An NBER research associate since 2006, she has been a member of the Environment and Energy Economics Program steering committee since its inception.

Wolfram's research interests span a range of energy and environment topics. She has studied...