Fellow II was a full professor of economics at Lille Catholic University and director of the Smart & Sustainable Cities research unit.… was a full professor of economics at Lille Catholic University and director of the Smart & Sustainable Cities research unit. Fateh has also held various positions at the French Scientific and Technical Center for Building and led multiple collaborative projects for the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and the European Commission. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from the fields of applied microeconomics, energy modeling, and econometrics. He has published widely on household energy consumption, energy-saving behaviors, individual preference and investment in energy efficiency, energy poverty, renewables, and energy policy. He received a habilitation for supervising doctoral research from Orléans University, a Ph.D. in Economics, an M.S. in Applied Economics & Decision Theory from Littoral University, and an engineering degree in statistics. His work has been published in journals including Ecological Economics, The Energy Journal, Energy Economics, Economic Surveys, Energy Policy, and Environmental Management

Expertise

• Energy and Environmental Economics; Energy Efficiency; Energy Demand; Fuel Poverty; Energy Policy; Energy Saving Behaviors; Applied Econometrics; Smart and Sustainable Cities.

Research Fellow Mohamad Hejazi is the Acting Program Director for the Climate and Sustainability Program. He leads the Climate Change Adaptation and… Mohamad Hejazi is the Acting Program Director for the Climate and Sustainability Program. He leads the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Partnership (CAMP) project at KAPSARC, and his work focuses on integrated assessment modeling, the energy-water-land nexus, and climate change research. Prior to joining KAPSARC, Mohamad worked as a senior research scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where he served as the principal investigator for the Global Change Intersectoral Modeling System (GCIMS) project, a multi-million-dollar project that includes over 40 interdisciplinary researchers across many institutions. Mohamad is a prolific publisher with over 100 journal publications. He has led and contributed to projects with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, US-AID, US-EPA, USGS, NASA, and NSF-INFEWS. He has also served as a contributing author to the Fourth U.S. National Climate Assessment, and the AR6 IPCC WG III report on the mitigation of climate change. Mohamad holds a Ph.D. (2009) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and M.S. (2004) and B.S. (2002) from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Expertise

• Integrated Assessment Modeling
• Energy-Water-Land Nexus
• Climate Change Research