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(Cancelled) Student Roundtable and Lunch with Professor Lucija Muehlenbachs
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October 26, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm edt
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This roundtable is open only to currently-enrolled Columbia University students.
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA for a student-only lunch and roundtable discussion with Professor Lucija Muehlenbachs, visiting faculty member at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA; associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary, and a university fellow at Resources for the Future.
Muehlenbachs will present her current research showing evidence of oil being drained away from First Nations reserves in Canada, with a discussion of the implications for equity and government oversight. Following introductions, we will move into an open conversation.
Lunch will be provided.
Biography
Lucija Muehlenbachs is an associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary and a university fellow at Resources for the Future. She has published extensively on the oil and gas industry, on topics such as end-of-life liabilities, environmental enforcement, implications on housing prices, water quality, waste management, and truck traffic. Achievements include providing analysis for the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling and serving on the editorial boards of five journals.
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This event will be hosted in person and capacity is limited. We ask that you register only if you can attend this event in its entirety. For more information about the event, please contact [email protected].
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