Duke University has landed a top Treasury official for its Sanford School of Public Policy.
William Pizer, a U.S. Treasury Department official whose departure from the Obama Administration was announced earlier this week, will join the faculty to help design and lead an initiative in energy and the environment. He will begin teaching in the fall.
Pizer also was appointed a faculty fellow in the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, a nonpartisan institute at Duke that focuses on finding solutions to the country's most pressing environmental challenges.
“Billy Pizer's decision to join our faculty will give an enormous boost to Duke's cross-school initiative in energy and the environment, and we expect him to play a leading role in shaping and developing the Sanford School of Public Policy's role in that initiative,” Sanford School Dean Bruce Kuniholm said in a statement.
During the last two years, as deputy assistant secretary for environment and energy, Pizer created and led a new office responsible for the Treasury Department’s role in the domestic and international environment and energy agenda of the United States.
Before joining Treasury , Pizer was a senior fellow and research director for 12 years at Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan think tank. There his work focused on global climate change.
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