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Claudia OCTAVIANO

Academic Background:

• 2010 - present • MIT, ESD: PhD student in Engineering Systems
• 2007 - 2009 • Yale University: MS in Environmental Science
• 1997 - 2001 • Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico: B.A. Economics

Work Experience:

• 2009 - 2011 • Centro Mario Molina
  Consultant:Integrated Assessment Models of Economics and Climate Change.  Architecture and potential applications of a global model to evaluate public policies on renewable energy and low-carbon technologies in Mexico
• 2009 - 2011 • United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
  Consultant: Analysis of the environmental externalities from the fossil-fuel generation in Central America, considering their Sustainable Development Strategy 2020
• 2009 - 2011 • Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico
  Consultant: Assessment of the environmental effects of the environmental standard for oil drilling activities in areas outside natural protected areas
• 2007 - 2008 • Yale University, UN Climate Change Conferene in Bali and Poznan
  Delegate
• 2007 - 2008 • Yale University, The Energy and Resources Institute • New Delhi, India
  Internship: Coastal vulnerability assessment and strategies towards impacts of climate change: State of West Bengal 
• 2001 - 2007 • Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Federal Government of Mexico
  Deputy Director: Designed regulations for air pollution control:  emissions limits for electric utilities, fuel quality and bio-fuels, oil industry emissions standards

Research Domain:

energy and sustainability, climate change and energy policy 

Research Methodology:

integrated assessment modeling, uncertainty and decision analysis, general equilibrium models, policy analysis

Research Description:

Claudia’s research focuses on improving modeling approaches that integrate engineering and economic models (bottom-up and top-down models) with the ultimate goal of developing tools that could better assess policies to ease the transition to low-carbon energy systems. In particular, she looks at the electric sector considering both fossil fuels and renewable energy choices, and the consequent macroeconomic impacts or policy design. She is currently working with the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. 

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