Francisco C. de la Chesnaye
Program Manager
Francisco C. de la Chesnaye is a Senior Project Manager in the Global Climate Change Program. His current research portfolio covers both domestic and international climate change issues. On domestic issues, his work focuses on modeling of the U.S. energy system, in particular the U.S. electric power sector, to evaluate the possible transformation of the system under alternative policies. On international issues, Mr. de la Chesnaye's work is focused on analyzing post-2012 global climate change policies.
Prior to joining EPRI, Mr. de la Chesnaye was the Chief Climate Economist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He was responsible for developing and applying EPA's economic models for domestica nd international climate change policy analysis. He led EPA's efforts to produce the agency's first independent economic analysis of a climate policy, the McCain-Lieberman bill of 2007. Subsequent analyses were completed in 2008 on the Bingaman-Specter and Lieberman-Warner bills.
Mr. de la Chesnaye was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report and served as the U.S. government’s lead technical expert on long-term economic and emission scenarios. Mr. de la Chesnaye is co-editor of Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment published by Cambridge Univ. Press (2007). He is co-editor of “Multigas Mitigation and Climate Policy” an Energy Journal Special Issue (2006).
Mr. de la Chesnaye is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He holds graduate degrees in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University and in Economics from American University, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Norwich University, The Military College of Vermont.