Dr. Frank Anton Distinguished Lecture in Economics
The Dr. Frank Anton Distinguished Lecture Series brings some of the world’s top economists to Calgary to lecture on an important public policy topic to a mixed audience of undergraduate and graduate students, university faculty, and alumni. Its purpose is to enrich the undergraduate and graduate experience at the University of Calgary, raise the Department’s international profile, and share thought provoking lectures with the University community.
The 2025 Distinguished Lecturer
March 7, 2025
Global Climate Progress in a Trump II World?
Dr. Catherine Wolfram, MIT Sloan School of Management
Dr. Wolfram, the William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Dr. Wolfram previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. From March 2021 to October 2022, Dr. Wolfram served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the U.S. Treasury, while on leave from UC Berkeley.
Before leaving for government service, Dr. Wolfram was the Program Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Environment and Energy Economics Program and a research affiliate at the Energy Institute at Haas. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard.
Dr. Wolfram has published extensively on the economics of energy markets. Her work has analyzed rural electrification programs in the developing world, energy efficiency programs in the US, the effects of environmental regulation on energy markets and the impact of privatization and market restructuring in the US and UK. Dr. Wolfram is currently working on projects at the intersection of climate, energy, and trade, including work on oil market sanctions.
Dr. Wolfram received a PhD in Economics from MIT in 1996 and an AB from Harvard in 1989.
Past distinguished lectures
The Wage Standard
Dr. Arindrajit Dube, NBER
Regulation, Innovation, and the Climate Transition
Dr. Meredith Fowlie, the Energy Institute at Haas
Understanding and Reducing Inequality in Education
Dr. Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan
Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly
Dr. Joshua Angrist, MIT
Is Multilateralism Dead?: Trade in the Era of Trump
Dr. Robert Staiger, Dartmouth College
The Economics of Immigration
Dr. David Card, UC Berkeley