Burçin Ünel
Executive Director
Dr. Burçin Ünel is the Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law.
Dr. Ünel, is an expert in utility regulation and environmental and energy policy. She has authored over 100 papers, policy briefs, public comments, and reports on numerous energy and environmental policy issues. Her articles on how to design policies for the future of the grid have been selected by the Environmental Law Institute as one of the year's top five environmental law articles, each year from 2017 to 2019.
Prior to her current role, Dr. Ünel had been the institute’s Energy Policy Director, leading Policy Integrity’s stakeholder involvement both at the federal and state level in front of regulatory agencies such as public utility commissions and FERC. She also served as a Senior Fellow in the Department of Energy’s Office of Policy, where she worked on domestic energy and climate policy issues, focusing on federal clean energy legislation, clean energy deployment, and infrastructure planning.
Before joining Policy Integrity, Dr. Ünel held faculty positions at the Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the University of Florida, and the Department of Economics at Bogaziçi University in Turkey. She also taught as an adjunct faculty member at the City College of New York and NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She received a B.A. in Economics from Bogaziçi University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Florida.
She can be reached at [email protected] or (212) 992-6285.
Academic Articles
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Just Regulation: Improving Distributional Analysis in Agency Rulemaking
Published in Ecology Law Quarterly
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Who Knows What: Information Barriers to Efficient DER Roll-Out
Published in International Association of Energy, Environment and Economy Journal
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Impact of Imperfect Foresight on Optimal DER Deployment, Remuneration and Policy
Published in Applied Energy
Reports
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Advancing Energy Justice Conference Brief
Tools for Justice40 and Equitable Deep Decarbonization
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Reforming Pipeline Review
Taking a Closer Look at the Need for New Natural Gas Infrastructure
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Carbon Trading for New York City’s Building Sector
Report of the Local Law 97 Carbon Trading Study Group to the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate & Sustainability
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Making Regulations Fair
How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Promote Equity and Advance Environmental Justice
Court Filings
Public Comments
Op-Eds
News Clips
