Frank Felder, PhD, is an expert in energy policy and electricity markets. His research, consulting and teaching interests include the reliability and economics of electricity markets, state energy policy, energy efficiency and renewable energy evaluation, and integrated energy modeling. He has significant leadership and management experience in the U.S. and abroad including Director of the Rutgers University Energy Institute, and for an international energy think tank, Program Director, Utilities and Renewables Program and Acting Director, Oil and Gas Program. He has been awarded numerous research grants by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Frank has published in policy, engineering and economic journals including Energy Policy, The Electricity Journal, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Electric Power Systems Research, Utilities Policy, Proceedings of the IEEE, and The Energy Journal. Frank has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in Energy Engineering, Economics and Policy; Energy Policy and Planning; and the Science, Technology and Policy of Climate Change. He has also taught short courses on electricity markets in Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe and the United States. He is formerly the Director of the Public Informatics program at the Bloustein School and Director of the Rutgers Energy Institute. He holds doctoral and master degrees from MIT in Technology, Management and Policy in the Engineering Systems Division and a BA and BS from Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Before joining the Bloustein School faculty, Frank was an assistant professor of Management at the Manhattan College School of Business, an economic consultant, and a nuclear engineer in the U.S. Navy. Specialties: Electric power industry restructuring, market design, energy policy, energy efficiency evaluation
