Adele Morris Email & Phone Number

Adele Morris is a Senior Adviser in the Division of Financial Stability at the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve in Washington, DC. She serves on the Financial Stability Division's climate committee, which is working to incorporate climate change considerations into the Federal Reserve's financial stability framework. She also leads and advises Board work on climate scenario development and analysis.Before joining the Federal Reserve, Adele was the Joseph H. Pechman Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. She served as the policy director of Brookings' Climate and Energy Economics Project. She joined Brookings in July 2008 from the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of the U.S. Congress, where she advised members and staff on economic, energy, and environmental policy. Before her work in Congress, Morris was the lead natural resource economist for the U.S. Treasury Department for nine years. In that position, she informed and represented Treasury’s positions on agriculture, energy, climate, and radio spectrum policies. On assignment to the U.S. Department of State in 2000, she led negotiations on land use and forestry issues in the international climate change treaty process. Prior to joining the Treasury, she served as the senior economist for environmental affairs at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the development of the Kyoto Protocol. Morris began her career at the Office of Management and Budget, where she oversaw rulemaking by agriculture and natural resource agencies. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University, an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Utah, and a B.A. from Rice University.

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