Game Creators

Frank Wolak

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Frank is the Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) and the Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. His recent work studies methods for introducing competition into infrastructure industries – telecommunications, electricity, water delivery, and postal delivery services – and on assessing the impacts of competition policies on consumer and producer welfare. From January 1, 1998 to March 31, 2011, Frank was the Chair of the Market Surveillance Committee of the California Independent System Operator for the electricity supply industry in California. Frank was also a member of the Emissions Market Advisory Committee (EMAC), which advised the California Air Resources Board on the design and monitoring of the state’s cap-and-trade market for Greenhouse Gas Emissions allowances.

Mark C. Thurber

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Mark is Associate Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) at Stanford University. He uses the energy market game in workshops for regulators on renewable energy integration as well as the Stanford course he teaches with Frank on "Energy Markets and Policy." Mark wrote Coal (Polity Press, 2019), about why the world struggles to phase out this dirty fuel, and coedited and contributed to The Global Coal Market (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Oil and Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He performs research on how more and better-quality energy can be delivered to consumers in emerging economies.

Trevor L. Davis

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Trevor is a Social Science Research Scholar in the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) at Stanford University. His research interests include studying the influence of market design on electricity market outcomes. He is also an open source software developer whose packages have altogether been downloaded millions of times.