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Olivier R. Bradley

  • Olivier received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2025, graduating summa cum laude and as a Commonwealth Honors College scholar with Greatest Distinction. Olivier received a minor in environmental science and a Civic Engagement & Public Service certificate; additionally, Olivier served as co-president of the UMass Undergraduate Economics Club (UEC), leading the group's annual Washington, D.C. trip, strengthening the Amherst economics community, and facilitating student-faculty-alumni connections alongside co-president Grace Davis. In 2024 and with project support from James K. Boyce, Olivier conducted intensive primary and secondary research on the Canada carbon rebate system through the NSF-funded UMass Amherst Energy Transition Institute REU Program, presenting Assessing Canada’s Carbon Rebate: Implications for Sustainable Carbon Pricing Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst 2024 ETI REU Poster Session. In 2025, Olivier continued and extended this research as an honors thesis through the Community Scholars Program, presenting Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing: A Way Forward at the Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference. In 2025, Olivier also published Canada Put a Price on Carbon and Rebated Billions Back to Canadians. Here’s What Worked and Here’s What Went Wrong. (Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability 2025) and co-published Climate Policy on Thin Ice: A Lesson from Canada (Common Dreams 2025) alongside co-author James K. Boyce. Olivier's current work focuses on bridging academic theory with practice and policy in the fight for climate justice and equitable social change.

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