Judy Chang

Managing Principal, Analysis Group

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Judy Chang, an energy economic and policy expert with a background in electrical engineering, is a Managing Principal at Analysis Group. She has more than 20 years of experience advising energy companies on regulatory and financial issues, particularly as they relate to investment decisions in transmission, clean energy, and storage. Chang served as the Undersecretary of Energy and Climate Solutions for Massachusetts from June 2020 through January 2023, leading the state’s efforts in setting energy policies and climate plans. Before joining the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chang was a Principal with The Brattle Group, co-leading the firm’s energy practice and assisting clients in comprehensive strategic and resource planning. As an energy economic advisor, she has submitted expert testimonies to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, U.S. state regulators, Canadian provincial regulatory authorities, and several regulators in Asian countries, on topics related to resource planning; power purchase and sale agreements; and transmission planning, access, and pricing. She has authored numerous reports and articles detailing the economic issues associated with generation and transmission investments, clean energy development, energy storage, and system planning.

Chang is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, focusing on the roles of government and the private sector in decarbonization. She is the founding Board Member of New England Women in Energy and the Environment (NEWIEE). She has presented at a variety of industry conferences, as well as graduate school seminars on energy and environmental policies at Harvard Law School, Tuft’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She holds a Master of Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Davis.