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C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell, associate professor and the Rob Dyson Sesquicentennial Chair in Environmental, Energy and Resource Economics, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, College of Business

Academic focus: environmental and natural resource economics, energy economics, industrial organization, applied econometrics, applied microeconomics

Previous positions: associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis

Academic background: B.A, environmental science and public policy, Harvard University; M.A. and Ph.D., economics, Harvard 

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