Suzi Kerr

Suzi Kerr is a Senior Vice President and the Chief Economist at Environmental Defense Fund. After completing her PhD in Economics at Harvard she was Founding Director of Motu Research in New Zealand in 1998, and a Senior Fellow until 2019.

She has worked at the University of Maryland at College Park, Resources for the Future (USA), the Joint Center for the Science and Policy of Global Change at MIT, Stanford University, Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka, and the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

She was influential in creation of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, has advised several countries on carbon market design, was influential in the development of jurisdictional approaches to avoiding deforestation and leads the international ‘Climate Action Teams’ initiative. She is a member of the Advisory Boards for the Climate Econometrics group at Oxford and the Gro- Kepos Carbon Barometer and on the Scientific Committee of the Climate Economics Chair at the University Paris Dauphine-PSL.