Bernie Lesieutre is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a member of the Energy Sources, Systems, and Policy Cluster, and a Senior Fellow of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy.
He is also affiliated with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and he teaches and advises students in the Energy Analysis and Policy program.
Professor Lesieutre holds a research appointment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.
Professor Lesieutre received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He served as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has had visiting appointments at Cornell and Caltech. His research and professional interests involve electric energy systems and energy policy. He has published numerous reports in support of activities at the U.S. Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and he was a member of a team that helped investigate the August 14th, 2003 Northeast blackout. He has served as a commissioner on a municipal electric board, and presently advises the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin on issues related to electric energy markets.
