L. Lynne Kiesling
Director, Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
L. Lynne Kiesling is director of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
Her research focuses on the economics of regulation, market design, and technological change in the electricity industry, including digitization, smart-grid technologies, and transactive-energy systems. She also studies how institutions and price signals shape innovation in complex network industries.
Kiesling is also a research professor in the School of Engineering, Design and Computing at the University of Colorado Denver and an adjunct professor in the Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability program at Northwestern University. She also serves as president of Knowledge Problem LLC, where she provides regulatory and market-design analysis.
Earlier in her career, she was co-director of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics at Carnegie Mellon University and a visiting associate professor and associate director of the Purdue University Research Center in Economics. She previously taught economics at Northwestern University and held a faculty position at the College of William & Mary. She also worked as director of economic policy at the Reason Foundation, a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University, and a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Her professional service includes membership on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee, prior service on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Smart Grid Advisory Committee, and emerita membership on the GridWise Architecture Council.
Kiesling earned a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s from Miami University (Ohio).
