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February 25, 2026 • 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm est

Energy Markets and the Future of Energy with Amrita Sen

Join us on February 25 for an in-depth, student-only conversation. Registration is required, and space is limited. The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA’s Women...

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Robert Metcalfe is Professor of Energy Policy and International and Public Affairs. He currently co-directs SIPA’s Center on Environmental Economics and Policy (CEEP) with Professor Douglas Almond. Metcalfe has previously worked at the University of Chicago, University of Southern California, Boston University, and University of Oxford. He has also previously worked in the U.K. Government as an Economist, and had a short-term position as a Fellow at the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Office of the U.S. President. He completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College London, M.Sc. at the London School of Economics, and B.A. at the University of Wales, Swansea. He grew up in a working class neighborhood in Swansea, United Kingdom, and is a first-gen college graduate.

He is also co-founder of two companies, The Behavioralist and Signol.

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