Rate My Professor Leslie Martin

Associate Professor Leslie Martin holds a position in the Department of Economics within the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. She obtained her PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and her BA in applied mathematics from MIT. Her research lies at the intersection of environmental economics, energy economics, industrial organization, and international development. As lead investigator of the Melbourne Environmental Data Analytics Lab (MEDAL), she utilizes frontier data analytics and partnerships with industry and government to design economic policies for decarbonizing energy, transportation, and manufacturing, as well as protecting forest and water systems. Martin has secured an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for work on the environmental impact of clustering manufacturing in special economic zones in rapidly industrializing countries. Prior grants enabled field experiments on consumer responses to electricity smart meter data in retail-competitive markets and analyses of distributional implications of road use charges using high-frequency data. She received an Early Career Researcher Grant from the University of Melbourne Faculty of Business and Economics in 2012.