Ph.D. Student, RAND School of Public Policy; Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND
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Hye Min Park is a Ph.D. student at the RAND School of Public Policy and an assistant policy analyst at RAND. She has a master's degree from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at U.C. Santa Barbara, and a B.S. in environmental engineering from the Pusan National University. Her research interests include energy and climate policy, with a focus on the intersections of climate mitigation and adaptation in the energy sector. She is particularly interested in balancing competing objectives—developing a clean, reliable, resilient, and affordable energy system—by evaluating trade-offs in policy and implementation.
Prior to joining RAND, she was an advisor at Southern California Edison where she focused on evaluating different energy resources to meet California's clean energy goals. She also helped design the new green energy program to meet various customer needs and analyzed rate implications. She also worked at a waste tire recycling plant and oil refinery as an environmental engineer in South Korea, Malaysia, and Louisiana.
M.E.S.M. in environmental science and management, University of California, Santa Barbara; B.S. in environmental engineering, Pusan National University
Korean
