ECONOMICS FACULTY

Email: gbhale@ucsc.edu 
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/galinahale/home 
Phone: 831-459-4745

Topics of Interest:

  • Animal welfare and animal agriculture
  • Analytical Finance
  • Economics
  • Food Systems
  • Environmental/Social Justice
  • Policy
  • Sustainability

Galina Hale

Core Faculty
Economics
Professor, Economics

Galina Hale is a Professor of Economics at UC Santa Cruz. Previously she served as a Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Galina's current research interests all revolver around climate change risks: understanding patterns of international capital flows and how they are affected by climate change risks, effects of climate risks on the stability of the financial system, the nexus between ESG sustainability goals and the financial system, and the role of the food system in achieving climate and other sustainability goals. Galina is a co-director of the UCSC Center for Analytical Finance (CAFIN).

Dr. Hale has been an advisor on the following CSP capstone projects:

Enhancing Environmental Management for Sustainable Coastal Resilience: A Comprehensive Policy Brief for Seagrass Protection and Rehabilitation (link coming in June 2024)

 

Email: westj@ucsc.edu
Website: people.ucsc.edu/~jwest1/
Phone: 831-459-4381

Topics of Interest:

  • Economics
  • Energy
  • environmental/Social Justice
  • Policy
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Sustainability

Jeremy West

Core Faculty
Economics
Assistant Professor, Economics

Jeremy West is an economist who studies public policy and environmental sustainability. Much of his research considers the implications of behavioral economics for the efficacy of public policies related to energy. He evaluates the distributional consequences of policies as well as their overall efficiency. Jeremy is a faculty affiliate of the E2e Project, a research collaboration to improve energy efficiency. As a postdoctoral associate in the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at MIT, he engaged extensively with government and industry parties working to improve environmental policies and practices.

Pidgeon Point Lighthouse, Pescadero California