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Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Kimberly Clausing, Ph.D.
Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law
Kimberly Clausing holds the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, and she is a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. During the first part of the Biden Administration, Dr. Clausing was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis in the US Department of the Treasury, serving as the lead economist in the Office of Tax Policy.
Professor Clausing’s research examines how government decisions and corporate behavior interplay in the global economy. She has published numerous articles on taxation, climate policy, and international trade, and she is the author of Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (Harvard University Press, 2019).
Dr. Clausing is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has testified before the U.S. Congress on many occasions, and she has received two Fulbright Research awards as well as many external research grants. Professor Clausing received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1996.
Keynote Moderator
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, ATPI Trustee and Immediate Past President
Moderator
Panel I: Climate Change and the Inflation Reduction Act: How We Got Here
Climate Change and Land Use Policy Fellow, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 91ÊÓƵ
Moderator
Assistant Vice President and Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Assistant Professor, University of Georgia School of Law
Assistant Professor, Touro University School of Law
Senior Lecturer and Associate Director, Tax Program, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Panel II: Carbon Tax and Other Pricing Proposals
Professor Emerita, University of Oregon School of Law and ATPI Trustee
Moderator
Assistant Professor of Tax Law, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Policy Advisor for Climate and Energy Policy Institute for Church and Society, Protestant Church of Westphalia, Germany
Walter J. Bum Professor of Law, University of Chicago School of Law
Professor, University of British Columbia Allard School of Law
Panel III: Taxation, Economic Impacts, and Environmental & Social Justice
Christopher C. Walthour, Sr. Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law and ATPI Trustee
Moderator
Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law
Staff Attorney, Food and Farm Business Law Clinic, Elisabeth Haub School of Law
NYU Steinhardt MA ‘26
NYU School of Law LLM ‘25
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Georgia Reithal Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Panel IV: Place-Based Environmental Initiatives
Associate Professor, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 91ÊÓƵ
Moderator
Carter C. Kissell Professor of Law, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Professor of Law, Cumberland School of Law at Samford University
Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law
Brunch Panel: Sustainable Finance, ESG, and Climate Resilience
Professor and Accounting Department Head, University of Connecticut School of Business and ATPI Trustee
Moderator
Partner, Business Tax Services, Deloitte Tax LLP
Professor of Law, Texas A&M School of Law
Founding CEO, New York Climate Exchange
Associate Research Scholar and Fellow in Private Law, Yale Law School