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Allen Fawcett is the Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI)—a partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the University of Maryland at College Park—and is jointly appointed as a Research Professor in the UMD School of Public Policy’s Center for Global Sustainability. JGCRI brings together expertise in research, modeling and analysis to advance scientific understanding of the ways in which human, energy and environmental systems interact. Since its formation, JGCRI has provided input to the White House, Congress, United Nations and other national and international governing and advising bodies. Within PNNL, Dr. Fawcett is the Director of the Global Change Division.

Before coming to PNNL in January of 2024, Fawcett previously served as a Branch Chief in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Atmospheric Programs. Dr. Fawcett has been extensively involved with the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum (EMF), co-chairing the EMF 24, 32, and 37 model intercomparison projects. He also served as a member of the Advisory Council for the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium. Fawcett joined the Environmental Protection Agency in 2003 after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the College of William & Mary.

• Multisector dynamics
• Environmental economics
• Global change
• Integrated human and Earth systems

• PhD in Economics, The University of Texas at Austin
• BA in Economics, College of William and Mary

A list of publications is available on Allen’s Google Scholar profile.