Amy Myers Jaffe is a faculty affiliate at Climate Policy Lab. Her research focuses on climate risk, climate adaptation policy and energy transition of state-owned energy firms. She currently serves as a research professor and Director of the Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab at New York University's School of Professional Studies. A leading expert on global energy policy, sustainability, and geopolitical risk, Jaffe is author of several books including her most recent book, “Energy’s Digital Future” published in 2021 by Columbia University Press. A frequent media commentator, Jaffe holds a career prize in energy economics from the US Association for Energy Economics and also served as the organization’s President in 2020. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations where she was a senior fellow for energy and environment from 2017 to 2020. She serves on the boards of several academic journals including Energy Journal, Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, and Energy Policy.
Myers Jaffe, A., (2021). Energy's Digital Future: Harnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National Security. Columbia Press.
Jaffe, A.M. "U.S. Loan Guarantee Program Needs Deeper Clarification of Goals and Metrics." CPL Policy Brief. (2021).
Griffin, P., Jaffe, A.M. "Challenges for a climate risk disclosure mandate" Nature Energy Journal. (2021).
Jaffe, Amy Myers, “State Owned Enterprises and the Energy Transition.” Papeles de Energía, Madrid, Spain. (2022).
Myslikova, Z., Jaffe, A. & Gallagher, K.S. Shielding and expanding Mission Innovation. Nat Energy (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01115-5
Rishikesh Ram Bhandary, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Amy Myers Jaffe, Zdenka Myslikova, Fang Zhang, Maria Petrova, Angeles Barrionuevo, Guillaume Fontaine, Jose Luis Fuentes, Patrick Karani, Daniela Martinez, Likeleli Seitlheko, Daniela Staicu, Najeeb Ullah, Abay Yimere, Demanding development: The political economy of climate finance and overseas investments from China, Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 93, 2022, 102816, ISSN 2214-6296, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102816.
Jaffe, A.M., Myslikova, Z., Qi. Q., Fang, Z., Oh, S., Elaas, J. "Green innovation of state-owned oil and gas enterprises in BRICS countries: a review of performance.” Climate Policy. (2022).
Oh, S., Jaffe, A. M., Gallagher, K. S., Dominguez-Faus, R., and Dahl, E. "Diversity and Inclusion in Public Clean Energy Innovation Programs in the United States" Climate Policy Lab, The Fletcher School at Tufts University, Number 018. (January 2024).
Fang, S., Jaffe, A. M., Loch-Temzelides, T., and Lo Prete, C. “Electricity grids and geopolitics: A game-theoretic analysis of the synchronization of the Baltic States' electricity networks with Continental Europe,” Energy Policy, Volume 188. May 2024.
Clark, J., Tietjen, B., Jaffe, A. M., Salak, S., and Coughlan de Perez, E. "Preparing for Novel Extreme Weather Events in the United States: Lessons from Disasters," Policy Brief, Climate Policy Lab, The Fletcher School at Tufts University. (April 2024)
El-Gamal, M. A., Jaffe, A. M., and Salak, S. "Fickle environmental attitudes and cleantech underinvestment,” Applied Economics Letters, 1–5. (2024).
Masukwedza, G. I. T., Clark, J., Jaffe, A., Jeffries, I., Tietjen, B., and Coughlan de Perez, E. “Storylines of Unprecedented Extremes in the Southeast United States.” Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 106, 3. (March 2025).
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