Ron Sands joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 1986, and his early work focused on simulating hourly and monthly electricity demand in commercial and residential buildings in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently assigned to the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, with responsibility for development of two economic modeling systems used for analysis of climate policy. The first modeling system is the Second Generation Model, a computable-general-equilibrium model covering 14 world regions. This model is developed collaboratively with research institutes in several countries, including China, India, Brazil, Japan, and Germany. The other modeling system is PNNL's Agriculture and Land Use (AgLU) model, designed to simulate global agricultural production and land-use change over one century and the resulting carbon emissions from land-use change. Ron currently manages the economic analysis task for the U.S. Department of Energy program to enhance Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems. He frequently represents PNNL in studies coordinated by the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in economics, also from the University of Minnesota.