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Valerie Karplus is a professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and associate director at the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation.

Karplus studies resource and environmental management in organizations operating in diverse national and industry contexts, with a focus on the role of institutions and management practices in explaining performance. Areas of expertise include innovation in global corporate and industrial supply chains, regional approaches to workforce and economic revitalization, and the integrated design and evaluation of public policies. Karplus has taught courses on public policy analysis, global business strategy and organization, entrepreneurship, and the political economy of energy transitions. At CMU, she runs the Laboratory for Energy and OrganizationsOpens in new window. Karplus is also a faculty affiliate of the MIT Energy InitiativeOpens in new window, the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy ResearchOpens in new window, and the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy.

She has previously worked in the development policy section of the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany, as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, and in the biotechnology industry in Beijing, China, as a Luce Scholar. From 2011 to 2016, she co-founded and directed the MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project a five-year research effort focused on analyzing the design of energy and climate change policy in China, and its domestic and global impacts. Karplus previously served on the faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Karplus holds a BS in biochemistry and political science from Yale University and a Ph.D. in engineering systems from MIT.

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Valerie Karplus of Engineering & Public Policy and Daniel Tkacik of the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation present decarb @ CMU. The mission of decarb @ CMU is to engage campus faculty, staff, and students in research, education, and outreach to advance deep reductions in the greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector while growing opportunity and well-being for workers and communities in Southwestern Pennsylvania and the Tri-State Appalachian region, and beyond.

Faculty Insights with Valerie Karplus and Daniel Tkacik

Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Valerie Karplus has studied decarbonization of global corporate and industrial supply chains, with a particular focus on China, for over 20 years. At the NTNU Energy Transition Conference's session about "Regional Innovation Strategies: Opportunities and Barriers", she shares experiences and results from her team at Tsinghua University and her American colleagues. She remarks on the incredible changes over the years and states that, in certain regions of China, the energy transition has seriously taken root.

The NTNU Energy Transition Conference is an annual meeting for academia, industry and policymakers to share knowledge and debate the transition to a sustainable energy system.

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Valerie Karplus SM '08, PhD '11, assistant professor of global economics and management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, talks at MIT Technology Day on June 8, 2019. This year's theme: MIT on Climate Change: New Research on Consumers, Companies, and Policy.

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