Sean Pool

Special Assistant for Energy Policy

Sean Pool is the special assistant for the Energy Policy team. Born in sunny Los Angeles, California, Sean decided to brave the east coast winters and moved to Connecticut in 2004 to undertake his bachelor's degree at Yale University. He graduated in December 2008 with a double major in environmental engineering and international studies and wrote his senior thesis comparing the role of government in shaping the business climate for environmental innovation investment in six European countries and the United States.

Sean's interests include environmental technological innovation, carbon emissions markets, and institutional sustainability. Before coming to CAP he did research at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Yale Office of Sustainability.