Gre­go­ry Nemet is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wisconsin–Madison in the La Fol­lette School of Pub­lic Affairs and the Nel­son Insti­tute’s Cen­ter for Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and the Glob­al Envi­ron­ment. He is also chair of the Ener­gy Analy­sis and Pol­i­cy cer­tifi­cate program

His research and teach­ing focus on improv­ing analy­sis of the glob­al ener­gy sys­tem and, more gen­er­al­ly, on under­stand­ing how to expand access to ener­gy ser­vices while reduc­ing envi­ron­men­tal impacts. He teach­es cours­es in ener­gy sys­tems analy­sis, gov­er­nance of glob­al ener­gy prob­lems, and inter­na­tion­al envi­ron­men­tal policy.

Pro­fes­sor Nemet’s research ana­lyzes the process of tech­no­log­i­cal change in ener­gy and its inter­ac­tions with pub­lic pol­i­cy. These projects fall in two areas: (1) empir­i­cal analy­sis iden­ti­fy­ing the influ­ences on past tech­no­log­i­cal change and (2) mod­el­ing of the effects of pol­i­cy instru­ments on future tech­no­log­i­cal out­comes. The first includes assess­ment of pub­lic pol­i­cy, research and devel­op­ment, learn­ing by doing, and knowl­edge spillovers. An exam­ple of the sec­ond is work inform­ing allo­ca­tion between research and devel­op­ment and demand-side pol­i­cy instru­ments to address cli­mate change.

In 2015, he received the H.I. Romnes Fac­ul­ty Fel­low­ship, which hon­ors out­stand­ing Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin-Madi­son fac­ul­ty mem­bers for their research contributions.He has been a con­trib­u­tor to the Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Pan­el on Cli­mate Change and the Glob­al Ener­gy Assess­ment. He received his doc­tor­ate in ener­gy and resources from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley. His A.B. is in geog­ra­phy and eco­nom­ics from Dart­mouth College.