About the Author

Trevor Houser, visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics during 2009-15, is partner at the Rhodium Group, where he leads the firm's energy and natural resources practice. He also codirects the Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration of leading research institutions combining climate, economic, and data science to quantify the risks climate change presents. During 2009, he served as senior advisor to the US State Department, where he worked on a broad range of international energy and environmental policy issues. His areas of research include energy and environmental policy and markets and energy-related international trade and investment issues. He is author or coauthor of The Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus (2015), Leveling the Carbon Playing Field: International Competition and US Climate Policy Design (2008), and China Energy: A Guide for the Perplexed (2007). Shashank Mohan is a director at RHG, where he works across the company's practice areas to analyze the impact of policy proposals and structural developments on specific markets and broader economic trends. Prior to RHG, he worked with Columbia University s Earth Institute and the World Bank to design an electricity expansion model for Kenya and Senegal and was a program assistant at the South Asia Institute. He holds an MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.