Kate Konschnik

Kate Konschnik directs the Climate & Energy Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, and is a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School. Konschnik's work focuses on options for public electric utility regulation and electricity market reforms given emerging technologies and de-carbonization goals. Konschnik has also worked extensively on effective governance of unconventional oil and gas production and transport.

Konschnik joined Duke from Harvard Law School, where she founded and directed the Harvard Environmental Policy Initiative and taught as a Lecturer on Law. Previously, Konschnik was Chief Environmental Counsel to U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, and a Environmental Enforcement Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Konschnik holds a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, cum laude, and a bachelor's degree in political science from Tufts University.