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Staff
Dr. Kenneth Richards, Director
Kenneth Richards holds a PhD in
Public Policy from the Wharton School and a JD from the Law School,
University of Pennsylvania. He holds an MSCE in Urban and
Regional Planning and a BSCE in
Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University, and a BA in
Botany and Chemistry from Duke
University.
He serves as an associate professor at SPEA and was
recently named associate director for the
Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewal Energy. He has served as
an
economist at the Council of Economic
Advisers, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, and the U.S. Department of
Energy's Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory. He also
served as national energy planner for the Cook
Islands from 1984 to 1986 and was
a member of the Environmental Commission for the City of Bloomington
from 1999 to 2004.
His research interests include climate
change policy and environmental policy implementation. He has
taught courses in environmental
economics, cost-benefit analysis, law and public policy, applied math,
climate change science and
policy, public management and administration, and public management
economics.
Stephanie Hayes Richards, Associate Director
Stephanie Hayes Richards
holds an MBA in Marketing from the Kelley School of Business and an MPA
in
Environmental Policy Analysis and Nonprofit Management from the
School of Public and Environmental
Affairs. She also holds a BA in Government from Campbell
University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. She
has worked on Capitol Hill in a congressional office and as an
international policy analyst for an environmental
organization. Upon her graduation from SPEA, she worked in Web production and
marketing for the City
Charlotte, North Carolina and later as the marketing executive/project manager for
www.IN.gov,
the State
of Indiana's Web site. Mrs. Richards now runs her own consulting business and
serves as the associate
director for the IU at Oxford program. She is an active member of the Bloomington
community who has
volunteered her time and talents to build Web sites for area nonprofits, coordinate
concession stands
and benefit dinners for the Cutters Soccer Club, and assist with the Lotus World Music
Festival. She has
significant experience in marketing, event planning, copywriting
and editing, project management, fundraising,
budget management and contract negotiation.
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