Harold Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement in ENRE

Harold Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment
This is a competitive award that recognizes ​the lifetime achievements of INFORMS scholars who have made sustained and exceptional contributions to the major areas spanned by ENRE. The name honors the legacy of Harold Hotelling (1895-1973), who made extensive theoretical contributions to the fields of economics and statistics and applied optimization methods to various practical and important problems in economics, most notably to spatial economics and the optimal management of natural resources.

All members of INFORMS who do outstanding work in one or more of the ENRE-related areas are eligible for nomination.

Although ENRE membership is not required, it will be given consideration. Nominations can only be made by current regular members of ENRE. Neither the nominator nor the nominee may be serving on the award committee in the year of the nomination. Contenders who do not receive the award in an award cycle may be nominated again in subsequent years.

Detailed guidelines about the Hotelling Medal and its nomination and selection processes:
Hotelling_Medal_General_Guidelines.pdf

Below is the nomination form for the 2025 Hotelling Medal:
ENRE_Hotelling_Nomination_Form_2025.doc


Nomination Process and Deadlines - 2025 Hotelling Medal

Each nomination dossier must include:

 1) a completed one-page nomination form including the names of the nominator and the nominee, and their contact information. 

 2) a brief nomination letter, of no more than two pages, written by the nominator explaining why the nominee is deserving of the award.

 3) exactly three reference letters, at least two of which must be from current regular or retired INFORMS members supporting the nomination. At most one of the references can be from the same institution as the nominee.

 4) a maximum 10-page CV that documents the research record, scholarly output (refereed publications, etc.), and other outstanding achievements of the nominee.

2025 Hotelling Medal selection committee: Shmuel Oren (chair), Andres Weintraub, Hung-po Chao, Ramteen Sioshansi, Golbon Zakeri


The nomination dossier must be submitted to: Shmuel S. Oren, chair of the selection committee, in electronic form no later than May 15, 2025. Email: shmuel@berkeley.edu

  

2025 ENRE Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement

Winner: Dr. Yves Smeers
Université catholique de Louvain
Award committee: Shmuel Oren (chair), Hung-po Chao, Ramteen Sioshansi, Andres Weintraub, Golbon Zakeri

Picture showing Hotelling Medal Award recipient

2024 ENRE Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement

Winner: Dr. Hung Po Chao 

President and CEO, Energy Trading Analytics, LLC, PA

Award committee: Shmuel Oren (Chair) , Andreas Weintraub, Ramteen  Sioshansi , Alvaro Julianne, Dorothy Quinn

2023 ENRE Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement

Winner: Christine Ann Shoemaker 

Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering Emerita
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell

Award committee: Benjamin Hobbs (chair), Álvaro Lorca, Erin Belval, Julianne Quinn, Mikael Rönnqvist

2022 ENRE Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement

Winner: Richard O'Neill

Award committee: Alexandra Newman (chair), Benjamin Hobbs, Andrew Liu, Álvaro Lorca, Sarah Ryan. 

Previous winners of Harold Hotelling award can be found here...

ENRE_Hotelling_Nomination_Form_2022