Zack Subin is an Associate Research Director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, leading the Center’s Housing + Climate Research Initiative. The Initiative focuses on better aligning housing and climate policy across three categories: (1) reducing climate pollution when building new housing; (2) equitably retrofitting the existing housing stock; and (3) adapting housing systems to face the impacts of climate change. Recent projects aim to address tensions and enhance synergies between climate policies and key housing policy objectives, such as fair housing.

Zack previously conducted climate policy analysis at RMI and Energy + Environmental Economics (E3), focusing on deep decarbonization pathways, building electrification, and urbanism. He has a PhD in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley and conducted climate science research at national laboratories in Berkeley and Princeton, investigating terrestrial ecosystem feedbacks to climate change in earth system models. He also has an MPP from Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and a BA in Physics and Math from Harvard University.