Meet the Faculty

Two top-tier researchers whose work addresses pressing environmental, development, and public policy questions have joined the ranks of Berkeley Haas professors this semester. Two additional professors will join the faculty in January 2025. 

Associate Professor Kelsey Jack, the Sheth Sustainable Business Chancellor’s Chair, works at the intersection of environmental and development economics. She brings expertise in how low-income households use natural resources—land, water, energy—and the ways policy can help align short-run economic needs with longer-run environmental and health concerns. 

Professor James Sallee has been at UC Berkeley for nearly a decade as a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and a faculty affiliate at the Energy Institute at Haas. His work focuses on energy, the environment, climate, and public economics with an emphasis on public policy. He helped launch Haas’ new master of climate solutions degree in collaboration with Rausser College of Natural Resources.

In January, two new faculty will join the Economic Analysis and Policy group: Economist Martin Beraja of MIT as an assistant professor and David Chan, a health economist and MD now at Stanford University, as a professor. Chan will serve as the new faculty director for the Robinson Life Science, Business, and Entrepreneurship Program.