Natalie Leonard
Fellow
Natalie Leonard was a Research Fellow at JFI working on labor, workforce development, climate, and industrial policy. She previously worked on industrial policy at the Berggruen Institute and researched financial crises at the Yale Program on Financial Stability. Beyond her work at JFI, Natalie is a senior analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She holds a BA in economics and philosophy from the University of Chicago.
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Labor Market Policy and the Energy Transition
Over the next year, JFI will be working on policy related to the twin opportunity of the climate labor gap and the skilled labor institutional gap. The current landscape of the climate transition reveals a paradoxical juxtaposition: paired forward-thinking policies around capital deployment stand in contrast to retrograde skilled labor policy. This combination will only serve to undermine and delay the energy transition while also wasting an opportunity to construct truly ambitious, sorely-needed new institutions. In the coming series, we’ll investigate what it would take to build these new institutions.
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Publications
Labor Market Policy and the Energy Transition: A Problem Statement
"Can skilled labor supply expand at the necessary pace to green our energy system, without wasting an opportunity to negotiate...
Part of the series Labor Market Policy and the Energy Transition