Chris Busch, Ph.D., is the Policy Director at the Center for Resource Solutions where he promotes advances in energy and climate policy. Chris is a member of the Economic and Technology Advancement Advisory Committee, one of two advisory bodies explicitly created under California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, AB (Assembly Bill) 32. He is also a member of the Climate Economics Taskforce of Economics for Equity and the Environment. Previously, Chris worked as Climate Economist with the Union of Concerned Scientists. In 2006, Chris co-authored the report Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California while he was with UC Berkeley’s California Climate Change Center. Prior to this, he served as Senior Research Associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working in the Lab’s International Energy Studies Group as well as its Appliance and Lighting Standards Group. Chris holds a Ph.D. in environmental economics from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and a master’s degree in public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy, both from the University of California, Berkeley.