Gregory Casey is a nonresident senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is also an associate professor of economics at Williams College, a CESifo research affiliate, and a member of the Macroeconomics Steering Committee for the Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) 38.
Casey previously served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from July 2024 to March 2025. His portfolio included climate policy and industrial strategy.
Casey’s research focuses on the links between macroeconomics, climate policy, and climate change. He has analyzed the effects of carbon taxes and clean energy subsidies on national-level environmental and economic outcomes. He has also studied the consequences of extreme heat for economic growth and the structure of production. He is currently working on several projects at the intersection of climate and trade policy, as well as the political economy of green industrial policy. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Centre for Economic Policy Research, among other sources.
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Current Positions
- Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Williams College
- Research Affiliate (Energy and Climate Economics), CESifo
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Past Positions
- Senior Economist, White House Council of Economic Advisers
- Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Williams College
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Education
- Ph.D. (2018), Economics, Brown University
- M.S. (2010), Economic Development Policy, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies
- B.A. (2009), Economics and Mathematics, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY