Staff

Senior Project Coordinator

E-Mail: emm2t@virginia.edu

Phone: 434-982-5552

Elizabeth coordinates the Virginia Solar Initiative for the Weldon Cooper Center. Immediately prior to this appointment she managed projects for Organizational Excellence, UVA’s pan-institutional quality and improvement program, and she has served as an urban planner in both the private and public sectors.

Director

E-Mail: shobe@virginia.edu

Phone: 434-982-5376

Bill directs the Center for Economic & Policy Studies. He is also a Professor of Public Policy in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and an adjunct faculty member in the Economics Department.

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Regional Economist

E-Mail: tm7aa@virginia.edu

Phone: 434-982-5819

Thom will be working on projects that investigate the potential economic impacts of solar parks on the Virginia economy with a particular focus on the implications for local land values.  Prior to this appointment, he was a visiting assistant professor at Georgia Tech and the Pollman Postdoctoral Fellow in Real Estate and Urban Economics at Harvard University.

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Program Manager ERI

E-Mail: jfogel@virginia.edu

Phone: 804-332-2005

Jonah handles a variety of activities for ERI including funding opportunity identification, communications, research team building, and interaction with funding agencies and institutional research administration and leadership. He provides support to the university-wide ERI Graduate Research Forum and coordinates outreach activities and training.

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Student Assistant

E-Mail: js5tf@virginia.edu

Jacob Shapero is a third year student at the University of Virginia majoring in economics. Jacob is working on a number of research projects for the Center for Economics and Policy Study.