Staff, Energy Institute at Haas

Bio:

Karen Notsund is the Director of the Energy and Environmental Economics (EEE) Mentorship Program, in partnership with the Opportunity Lab. The EEE Mentorship Program supports innovative graduate student research on critical energy and environmental issues and provides first-generation and underrepresented undergraduates the opportunity to work closely with and receive mentoring from PhD students and faculty researchers. Previously, Karen was the Associate Director of the Energy Institute at Haas for 25 years, where she managed contracts and grants for research and events, finances, human resources, and data management.

Prior to joining the Energy Institute, Karen worked in the telecommunications industry advocating for a new and competitive regulatory framework to encourage facilities-based competition with the incumbent telecommunications companies. She worked for start-up companies, such as Teleport Communications Group and Urban Media; mid-size companies such as XO Communications and IGC Communications, and briefly for an incumbent, AT&T. Karen’s interest in utility regulation began at the California Public Utilities where she was an analyst with the independent Division of Ratepayer Advocates.

Karen Notsund completed two years of the Ph.D. program in agricultural economics at the University of California, Davis, earned a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics at the University of California, Davis, and her bachelor of science degree in economics at the University of Oregon.

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