2020 Summer Research Internship

Do you want to begin a career in academic or policy research? Are you interested in contributing to impactful, balanced research that is aimed at improving environmental, energy and natural resource decisions? A summer research internship with Resources for the Future (RFF) might be right for you. RFF has several openings for our 2020 summer internship program. The RFF summer internship program provides an opportunity for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and early career professionals to prepare for careers that engage in academic and policy-relevant research. Our research internships are paid, 10-12 weeks and located in Washington, DC.

Resources for the Future (RFF) is an independent, nonprofit research institution in Washington, DC. Our mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement. We work with leading national and global partners—from technologists at NASA to climate scientists at our new European institute—to apply an economic lens to climate change and other global environmental and resource challenges of the 21st century. We’re leaders in our field: RFF was recently named #1 for environmental economics from a field of 8,000 global institutions.