Dr. Michael Walsh

Managing Director of Research & Public Policy

Chicago Office

Michael Walsh is Managing Director of Public Policy & Research at IncubEx.  He has been a leader in the design and implementation of environmental markets.  As a co-founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Walsh directed new product R&D and played a central role in building the market-leading Chicago Climate Futures Exchange and European Climate Exchange. Walsh has testified at the U.S. House, Senate and White House and Co-Chaired the Hawaii Symposium that honored the 50th anniversary of the Keeling Curve. At the Chicago Board of Trade, Walsh directed the first three auctions of SO2 emission allowances conducted for the highly successful U.S. EPA acid rain reduction program.  Earlier, Walsh served in the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy and was an instructor at the University of Notre Dame.  Walsh earned a Ph.D. in Economics at Michigan State University.

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