Senior Fellow, Economics

Liwayway Adkins is senior research fellow in economics at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. She coordinates research activities on the economic modeling of climate change policies in conjunction with the director of policy analysis and communicates the results to policymakers and the public. Working with members of the academic, business, and policymaking communities, she seeks to identify new areas of research in line with the Pew economics program mission.

Prior to joining the Pew Center in 2008, Dr. Adkins was an economist with the National Center for Environmental Economics at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Her research involved developing global economic models for trade and environmental policy analysis. She was a contributing author to EPA's Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses and served as EPA’s representative on the advisory board of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) consortium. She has also held positions at the World Bank and U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Dr. Adkins received Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the University of Virginia and a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, all in economics.