Gregory B. Upton, Jr.

Dr. Greg Upton is Executive Director & Associate Research Professor at the Louisiana State University Center for Energy Studies. His research interests are at the intersection of energy and environmental economics. He has contributed to over 40 publications and has presented research on these topics to over 200 industry, governmental and academic audiences, including testifying in committees of both chambers of the Louisiana Legislature and a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is regularly interviewed on live talk radio and other news outlets and has been quoted or cited over 250 times in local and national media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and NPR. He has taught classes in the Department of Economics, Environmental Sciences, and the Master of Business Administration program at LSU. He is the Vice President of Conferences for the United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE), a member of the University Advisory Board to the Center for Legislative Energy & Environmental Research (CLEER) and an appointee to the National Petroleum Council (NPC) by Department of Energy Secretary Granholm. He is a legislatively appointed member of the Clean Hydrogen Task Force created by House Concurrent Resolution 64 of the 2024 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature as well as the Task Force on Local Impacts of Carbon Capture and Sequestration created by Senate Resolution 179 of the 2023 Regular Special Session of the Louisiana Legislature.

Dr. Upton holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Louisiana State University where he also received both an M.A. in economics and a B.S. in economics with a concentration in empirical analysis.