Ph.D. Candidate, RAND School of Public Policy; Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND
Javier Rojas is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and a Ph.D. student in the Research, Analysis, and Design stream at the RAND School of Public Policy. His research at RAND focuses on sustainability, climate change, decarbonization policy, and renewable energy deployment. His work integrates methods for decisionmaking under deep uncertainty with advanced statistical and computational models to develop robust strategies for transitioning to low-carbon energy systems. Rojas is particularly interested in exploring how policy interventions can accelerate the adoption of renewable energy technologies, improve urban resilience to climate impacts, and address equity concerns in the transition to sustainable development. Through his interdisciplinary approach, Rojas aims to inform evidence-based policies that mitigate climate risks while fostering economic growth and social equity.
Before joining RAND, Rojas served as an econometrician at the Colombian National Planning Department, where he contributed to national policymaking though the econometric analysis of macroeconomic and social variables. Javier also worked as a research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Center for Spatial Data Science in the Healthy Regions and Policies Lab, where he developed software tools to study opioid risk environments.
Rojas holds an M.S. in computational analysis and public policy from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in economics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
M.S. in computational analysis and public policy, University of Chicago; P.G.Dip. in statistics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; B.S. in economics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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