Anna Alberini received her PhD in Economics from the University of California San Diego. She is currently a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She teaches PhD-level econometrics courses, undergraduate statistics courses based on energy and environmental data, a course in the economics of climate change, and supervises numerous graduate and undergraduate research projects. She is an energy and environmental economist with a major focus on the economics of health and safety and non-market valuation. Her energy economics research focuses on residential energy demand, energy efficiency decisions and consequences of such decisions, policies targeted as shaping residential energy demand, and on vehicle fuel economy and driving decisions. Her work has appeared in the Energy Journal, Energy Economics, Energy Efficiency, JEEM, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Health Economics, and other journals. Alberini has served two stints on the Science Advisory Board for Environmental Economics to the US Environmental Protection Agency and is currently the chair of the American Statistical Association committee that advises the US Energy Information Administration. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of The Energy Journal, of the International Advisory Board of Energy Policy, and an associate editor of Energy Efficiency.