Catherine Wolfram

Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. From March 2021 to October 2022, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the U.S. Treasury, while on leave from UC Berkeley. Since March 2025, Wolfram has served on the COP30 Ad Hoc Council of Economists and chaired a working group on climate coalitions.

Wolfram has published extensively on the economics of energy markets. She has studied the electricity industry around the world and has analyzed the effects of environmental regulation, including climate change mitigation policies, on the energy sector.  She is currently implementing several randomized controlled trials to evaluate energy programs in the U.S., Kenya and India.

She received a PhD in economics from MIT in 1996 and an AB from Harvard in 1989.  Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was an assistant professor of economics at Harvard.