I am an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) and Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. I work on the intersection of energy, environment, economic development and health. I am the editor and the contributor to The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). This volume is among the first to bring together experts working at the forefront of shale gas issues on five continents to explain how countries reach their decisions on shale development. The Shale Dilemma recommends practical steps to help countries reach better, more transparent, and more far-sighted decisions. In 2014 and 2015, I convened a leading group of academic and policy analysts, with in-country expertise on the intersection of energy, environment and development issues. Papers published examine the interaction of governments and markets in the wind energy transition, the effectiveness of corporation social responsibility programs, the nexus of trade and the environment, and the impact of public good provision on public health. I served as the Bley Stein Visiting Professor at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in May 2014. I helped launched the Masters-level program in Energy and the Environment at GSPIA, where I teach multidisciplinary courses in Global Energy, Global Environment, Global Health, Current Issues in Sustainability, Global Economy, and Economics of Development. I was selected as the Faculty Fellow in Sustainability in 2017. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and I completed an M.Sc. in Environmental Management and a B.A. in Jurisprudence at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.