

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
ATPI Board member
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
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
University of Georgia School of Law
Touro University School of Law
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Panel II: Carbon Tax and Other Pricing Proposals
University of Oregon School of Law and ATPI Board member
Moderator
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Policy Advisor for Climate and Energy Policy for the Protestant Church of Westphalia, Germany
University of Chicago School of Law
University of British Columbia Allard School of Law
Panel III: Taxation, Economic Impacts, and Environmental & Social Justice
University of Pittsburgh School of Law and ATPI Board member
Moderator
University of San Francisco School of Law
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
NYU School of Law
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Panel IV: Place-Based Environmental Initiatives
Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
Moderator
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Cumberland School of Law at Samford University
University of Miami School of Law
Brunch Panel: Sustainable Finance, ESG, and Climate Resilience
University of Connecticut, Accounting Department and ATPI Board member
Moderator
Partner at Deloitte Tax LLP
Texas A&M School of Law
Founding CEO of The New York Climate Exchange
Associate Research Scholar and Fellow in Private Law at Yale Law School