Frances C. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and the University of California Davis. She studies the risks climate change poses to human welfare and how individuals and communities respond to mitigate those risks. Her work is highly interdisciplinary with a focus on climate science and environmental economics, but including collaborations with engineers, psychologists, ecologists, and political scientists. 

Recent research topics include the relationship between climate change and economic growth, climate change effects on natural capital, endogenizing climate policy in models of the coupled climate-social system, and the interaction of climate risk with insurance markets. Between 2022 and 2023 she served as a Senior Economist in the Council of Economic Advisers in the Biden Administration, providing economic and policy analysis on climate change and clean energy issues. She holds the Hurlstone Presidential Chair and is a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow.

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The David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series is coordinated by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE), and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). This seminar is also co-sponsored by the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy, the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, and the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance.

This in-person event is open to the public. Princeton University community members do not need to RSVP. Members of the general public should RSVP to ccrosby@princeton.edu and will be accommodated as space allows.

This seminar will be livestreamed at http://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/.