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August 30, 2005

Kiesling Named to Architecture Council

L. Lynne Kiesling, senior lecturer in economics, has been appointed to the GridWise Architecture Council, a national organization working with the Department of Energy GridWise Project, which envisions a future electric system built on information technology to fundamentally transform the planning and operation of the power grid.      

Kiesling performs policy-oriented market design research using experimental economics methodology to focus on issues of regulatory, institutional and technological change. Her interests include electricity and natural gas industry restructuring, telecommunications regulation and restructuring, and the role of property rights, information and transaction costs in shaping these changes.

Kiesling is director of the Center for Applied Energy Research, International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics, and a research scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University.