Angela Chen is a research scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management’s Aggregate Confusion Project, leading a rapidly growing subgroup on carbon markets academic research. Probing fundamental questions around scalability, additionality, asset pricing, and the evolving regulatory environment and standards to disambiguate how carbon offset methodologies are designed, her research efforts currently focuses on problems in measurement and reporting, and the anatomy, incentive structures and governance protocols of its institutions, including that of the major carbon registries.
An active member of the sustainability management and standards measurement community, her prior work includes serving as advisor to UNEP, NIST, and ANSI industry working groups on standards development in conjunction with the United States’ EPA work on ecolabels and certifier accreditation programs. She also founded ProductBio, a venture-backed platform technology for AI-enabled performance management of sustainable consumption and production responsible for improving Scope 3 reporting and shifting US $2.6 billion taxpayer-dollars of purchasing power toward “environmentally preferable” compliance to-date.
Angela holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley, and a research M.Phil from the University of Cambridge