Paul L. Joskow is Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management at MIT and Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Professor Joskow has been on the MIT faculty since 1972 and served as Head of the MIT Department of Economics from 1994 to 1998. At MIT he is engaged in teaching and research in the areas of industrial organization, energy and environmental economics, and government regulation of industry. Professor Joskow has published four books and over 100 articles and papers in these areas. His papers have appeared in The American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy, The Journal of Law and Economics, The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, The Rand Journal, The Journal of Econometrics, The Yale Law Journal, The International Economic Review, The Energy Journal, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Electricity Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Science, and other journals and books.

Professor Joskow has been a Visiting Professor and Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a Fellow at the Center For Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. He has served as an advisor or consultant to the National Science Foundation, The Sloan Foundation, The National Research Council, The Ford Foundation, the OECD, the World Bank, the Electric Power Research Institute, and other government and non-profit organizations. He was a member of the EPA's Acid Rain Advisory Committee and currently serves on the Environmental Economics Committee of the EPA's Science Advisory Board. He has also served as a consultant on regulatory and competitive issues to organizations in the United States, The United Kingdom, Spain, New Zealand, France, Russia, Canada, and Mexico.

Professor Joskow is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Boards of Directors of the New England Electric System, State Farm Indemnity Company, and the Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, and a Trustee of the Putnam Mutual Funds. He is also President of the Yale University Council, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institut d'Economie Industrielle (Toulouse, France), and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Conservation Law Foundation.

Professor Joskow is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.