Burçin Ünel

Dr. Burçin Ünel is a Part-time Professor at the Florence School of Regulation. She is the Research and Policy Director at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, where she previously served as the Executive Director.

Her work focuses on electricity market design, utility regulation, and the economics of energy and climate policy. She also works on regulatory analysis and process, including benefit-cost analysis and the use of artificial intelligence in policymaking. At Policy Integrity, she has led the Institute’s engagement in regulatory proceedings before the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy, and state utility commissions.

She has authored more than 130 papers, reports, and regulatory comments. In each year from 2017 to 2019, the Environmental Law Institute selected one of her articles on grid policy design as a top five environmental law article. She serves on the New York Independent System Operator’s Environmental Advisory Council. She was a Senior Fellow in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Policy, where she worked on federal clean energy legislation, deployment, and infrastructure planning.

She previously held faculty positions at the University of Florida and Boğaziçi University. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Florida and a B.A. in Economics from Boğaziçi University