Dr. Parsons is a Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management.  His research focuses on the valuation and financing of investments in energy markets, as well as the problems of risk in energy and environment markets.

He is currently an Associate Director at MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR). He was a co-Director of the recent MIT study on the Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon Constrained World.  Dr. Parsons serves as an Associate Member of the U.S. CFTC’s Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee and has been a Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

He holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University and a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University.