Dr. Stephen St. Marie is Commissioner Sandoval’s Water and Natural Gas Advisor. Prior to joining the team, he served as Chief of Staff to Commissioner John A Bohn from 2007 through the end of Commissioner Bohn’s term, and previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor in Commissioner Bohn’s office.
Stephen joined the CPUC in 2003 and served as a Public Utility Regulatory Analyst in the Energy Division. Prior to joining the CPUC, Stephen had a career as a consulting economist. He was associated with NERA and Navigant Consulting, and he also worked as an independent practitioner. Earlier he served as Manager of Marketing Statistics at the Aluminum Association, a trade association of Aluminum-related businesses. Stephen began his career as an Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, DC.
Stephen has a B.A. (magna cum laude) in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He later studied at the George Washington University in Washington DC, where he was awarded a M.A. and a PhD in economics.