James L Sweeney

(650) 723-2847
jim.sweeney@stanford

Personal bio
James(Jim)Sweeney is Director of the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and Professor of Management Science and Engineering. His professional activities focus on economic policy and analysis, particularly in energy, natural resources, and the environment. He currently is Senior Fellow of: the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Woods Institute for the Environment; Precourt Institute for Energy. Prof. Sweeney is a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics, a lifetime National Associate of the National Academies, a council member and senior fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology, a member of the External Advisory Council of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Prof. Sweeney earned his B.S. degree from MIT in electrical engineering and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in engineering-economic systems.

Currently teaching

MS&E 241: Economic Analysis (Winter)
MS&E 243: Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis (Spring)
MS&E 441: Policy and Economics Research Roundtable (PERR) (Autumn, Spring)

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James L Sweeney (Professor)