Cassie is a DPhil student at the School of Geography and Environment. She is interested in the socio-economic implications of the clean energy transition, particularly around affordability. Her research focuses on the impact of clean energy supply- and demand-side policy design on low-income households.
Prior to undertaking a DPhil, Cassie worked with the Clean Energy Ministerial Secretariat at the International Energy Agency helping advance government-government cooperation on clean energy technology deployment. Before that, she was with GTI Energy where she worked on power system decarbonization pathways. She also served at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of International Affairs during the Obama Administration and worked on city-level clean energy procurement at the World Resources Institute.
Cassie holds degrees from the London School of Economics (MSc in Environmental Economics) and the University of North Carolina (double BA in International Relations and History).