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Faculty Spotlight
IHS Faculty: Lynne Kiesling
Both an IHS seminar faculty member and alum, Dr. Lynne Kiesling is the Director of the new Applied Energy Research Program at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University. In addition to working with Nobel Prize winner Vernon Smith to expand the use of experimental economic research in the establishment and implementation of regulatory policy, she continues to teach in the Economics Department at Northwestern University. [more]