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Kimberly Clausing, Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law.

Keynote Speaker

Kimberly Clausing

Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law

Kimberly Clausing holds the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, and she is a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. During the first part of the Biden Administration, Dr. Clausing was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis in the US Department of the Treasury, serving as the lead economist in the Office of Tax Policy.

Professor Clausing’s research examines how government decisions and corporate behavior interplay in the global economy. She has published numerous articles on taxation, climate policy, and international trade, and she is the author of Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (Harvard University Press, 2019).

Dr. Clausing is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has testified before the U.S. Congress on many occasions, and she has received two Fulbright Research awards as well as many external research grants. Professor Clausing received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1996.

Keynote Moderator

Panel I: Climate Change and the Inflation Reduction Act: How We Got Here

Climate Change and Land Use Policy Fellow at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law
Moderator

Panel II: Carbon Tax and Other Pricing Proposals

Policy Advisor for Climate and Energy Policy for the Protestant Church of Westphalia, Germany

Panel III: Taxation, Economic Impacts, and Environmental & Social Justice

Food and Farm Business Law Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Panel IV: Place-Based Environmental Initiatives

Brunch Panel: Sustainable Finance, ESG, and Climate Resilience

Associate Research Scholar and Fellow in Private Law at Yale Law School