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Peter H. Larsen is a senior scientific engineering associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His primary research areas include analysis of the U.S. energy services company (ESCO) industry, estimating risk to economic sectors and infrastructure from extreme weather events, and providing technical assistance for Western U.S. utility resource planning efforts.

Previously, Peter worked on policy and scientific issues related to Arctic climate change for The Nature Conservancy in Alaska. In 2005, Larsen was recruited to the Institute of Social and Economic Research in Anchorage, Alaska to build the first defensible model of future economic impacts of rapid climate change for Alaska. In 2004, Larsen was hired as a term economist in the Societal Impacts Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) where he studied the sensitivity of the U.S. economy to weather variability. Peter also worked as a senior associate for Stratus Consulting where he conducted applied economics research on many diverse topics including wholesale electricity market monitoring in New England, U.S. energy efficiency standards, and climate change impacts on the country of Nepal.

Peter has taught university-level courses at The University of Montana, Cornell University, The University of Alaska, and The University of California at Berkeley. Peter holds an M.S. in natural resource economics from Cornell University and a B.A. in economics from the University of Montana at Missoula. Peter is currently pursuing a PhD at Stanford University.

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