Leila Safavi is an economic fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law. Leila’s research interests lie at the intersection between energy and environmental economics and industrial organization. Her research combines applied econometrics with novel data collection to quantify the economic and environmental costs and benefits of a wide range of economic policies impacting energy markets. In recent work, she has studied self-dealing in natural gas pipeline expansions, inefficiencies in interregional transmission usage, and natural gas market design for electric reliability.

Leila holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a B.A. in economics and English literature from the University of Chicago and previously worked as a research analyst at the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.