Karl Hausker
Senior Fellow
World Resources Institute
Karl Hausker leads analysis and modeling of domestic climate mitigation scenarios for the WRI. He has led climate policy analysis and modeling projects for USAID, USEPA, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Western Climate Initiative and the California Air Resources Board. From 2007-2013, Hausker was a vice president at ICF International. He previously served as deputy director at the Center for Climate Strategies and as a principal with Hagler Bailly. He served President Clinton as deputy assistant administrator in EPA’s Policy Office where he represented EPA in interagency climate policy development and at COP-1. He was the chief economist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hausker holds a Ph.D. in public policy from University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Cornell University.