Marc Jeuland

Marc Jeuland is the faculty director of the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project. He is a professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, with a joint appointment in the Duke Global Health Institute, and secondary appointments in the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering. He is an environmental economist whose research focuses on nonmarket valuation, water and sanitation, environmental health, energy poverty and transitions, transboundary water resource planning and management, and the impacts and economics of climate change. He earned his PhD from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Jeuland is also a cofounder of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI), a global “center without walls” that focuses on research at the nexus of energy transitions and development. His energy portfolio includes work related to evaluation of cleaner cooking interventions, measuring energy access and reliability, the role that modern energy plays in productive use and resilience, gender and energy, and reviews of the drivers and impacts literature related to energy.

Jeuland works with diverse organizations including the World Bank, US Agency for International Development, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, UNICEF, and many field-based nongovernmental organizations and community-based implementing organizations. Prior to his graduate studies, Jeuland was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, where he designed and monitored construction of a pilot wastewater treatment system and trained management personnel at the plant’s managing firm.