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Thursday, April 24, 2025

• 12:30pm - 12:45pm PDT

  Opening Remarks

  Neale Mahoney, SIEPR Trione Director, Professor of Economics

• 12:45pm - 1:55pm PDT

  Session 1: State and Local Budget Allocation on Wildfire Prevention, Suppression, and Harm Reduction

  • Scott Stephens, Professor of Fire Science at University of California, Berkeley
  • Joe Trotter, Executive Director of Americans for Clean Water
  • Stephen Benson, California Department of Finance
  • Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF)

  Moderated by Michael Wara, ºÃÉ«App Woods Institute for the Environment

• 1:55pm - 2:55pm PDT

  Session 2: The Impact of Wildfires on Government Budget, Energy Price, and Property Value

  • Rachel Ehlers, Deputy Legislative Analyst at the California Legislative Analyst’s Office
  • Neysa Fligor, Special Assistant, Santa Clara County Office of the Assessor. Former Mayor of Los Altos.
  • Koko Tomassian, Program Manager of Safety Management Systems Branch, California Public Utilities Commission

  Moderated by Michael Mastrandrea, Research Director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program at ºÃÉ«App Woods Institute for the Environment

• 2:55pm - 3:10pm PDT

  Break

• 3:10pm - 4:00pm PDT

  Session 3: The Impact of Wildfires on Health and Our Daily Life

  • Marshall Burke, Associate Professor of Environmental Social Sciences, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, at the Woods Institute for the Environment, at SIEPR and Associate Professor, by courtesy of Earth System Science at ºÃÉ«App Doerr School of Sustainability
  • Chris Dicus, Professor of Wildland Fire & Fuels Management in the Natural Resources Management & Environmental Sciences Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

  Moderated by Deborah A. Sivas, Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law, Director, Environmental Law Clinic, Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program, Professor of Environmental Social Science, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment

• 4:00pm - 5:10pm PDT

  Session 4: Wildfires, Home Insurance Markets, and Risk Management

  • Frank Bigelow, Deputy Director of Community Wildfire Preparedness & Mitigation at Cal Fire.
  • Steven Greenhut, Resident Senior Fellow and Western Region Director at R Street.
  • Nancy Wallace, Professor and Chair of the Real Estate Group, Lisle and Roslyn Payne Chair in Real Estate and Capital Markets, Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at University of California, Berkeley
  • Sarah Russell, Managing Director of Bellwether, Google X

  Moderated by Bruce Cain, Charles Louis Ducommun Professor in the School of Humanities & Sciences, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, at the ºÃÉ«App Institute for Economic Policy Research & Professor of Environmental Social Sciences at ºÃÉ«App School of Humanities and Sciences

• 5:10pm - 6:00pm PDT

  Networking Reception