• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Christopher Knittel

MIT Energy Initiative

George P. Shultz Professor & Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management

Christopher Knittel is the George P. Shultz Professor of Applied Economics in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the Director of MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research which has served as the hub for social science research on energy and the environmental since the late 1970s. Professor Knittel is also the Co-Director of the MIT Energy Initiative’s Electric Power System Low Carbon Energy Center and a co-director of The E2e Project, a research initiative between MIT, UC Berkeley, and the University of Chicago to undertake rigorous evaluation of energy efficiency investments. He joined the faculty at MIT in 2011, having taught previously at UC Davis and Boston University. At MIT he teaches Energy Economics and Policy to undergraduates, MBA students, and graduate students from outside of the Sloan School of Management. Professor Knittel received his B.A. in economics and political science from the California State University, Stanislaus in 1994 (summa cum laude), an M.A. in economics from UC Davis in 1996, and a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 1999. 

Sessions With Christopher Knittel

Tuesday, 12 March