Frank Wolak

Frank A. Wolak is the Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the department of economics at Stanford University. His fields of specialization are industrial organization and econometric theory. His recent work studies methods for introducing competition into infrastructure industries and on assessing the impacts of these competition policies on consumer and producer welfare. He holds a BA from Rice University and an MA and PhD from Harvard University. 

From 1998 to 2011, Wolak was the chair of the Market Surveillance Committee of the California Independent System Operator for the electricity supply industry. He is a visiting scholar at University of California Energy Institute and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He currently directs the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development in the Freeman-Spogli Institute.