Joseph Kruger
Visiting Scholar at Resources for the Future

Joe Kruger is a Visiting Scholar at Resources for the Future (RFF), where his research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of emissions trading programs. He is a lead author for the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (Working Group III). He also represents RFF on the Resource Panel for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a carbon dioxide cap and trade program developed by nine states in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic U.S. Kruger is on leave from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he managed a group within EPA's Clean Air Markets Division that was responsible for technical and policy analysis of greenhouse gas trading and inventory issues. He has also been Chief of the EPA Acid Rain Division’s Energy, Evaluation and International Branch, where he was responsible for evaluating the economic and environmental impacts of the SO2 Trading Program. Kruger holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and an A.B. in Government and Economics from Cornell University.