Catherine Izard (E 2013)

(she/her)

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About

Catherine Izard earned her doctorate in Engineering & Public Policy and Civil & Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013. Her dissertation, “How the Timing of Climate Change Policy Affects Infrastructure Turnover in the Electricity Sector: Engineering, Economic and Policy Considerations,” investigated the relationship between climate policy timing and infrastructure turnover in the electricity sector. Izard is currently leads a data science team at National Grid, where she is “interested in combining interdisciplinary, systems thinking, advanced quantitative modeling, and data science in a business context to solve energy and climate problems.”

First Author Publications during PhD

Izard, C.F., Weber, C.L., & Matthews, H.S. (2010). Scrap the carbon tariff. Nature Clim Change, 1, 10–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/climate.2010.132

Izard, C.F., Weber, C.L., & Matthews, H.S. (2010). Primary and Embedded Steel Imports to the U.S.: Implications for the Design of Border Tax Adjustments. Environmental Science & Technology, 44(17), 6563-6569. https://doi.org/10.1021/es101010u