Wolfram Schlenker
HEEP Faculty Fellow
Ray A. Goldberg Professor of the Global Food System
Wolfram Schlenker is the Ray A. Goldberg Professor of the Global Food System at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research focuses on the effect of weather and climate on agricultural yields and migration, how climate trends and the US biofuel mandate influences agricultural commodity prices, and how pollution impacts both agricultural yields and human morbidity. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley (2003) and a Master of Engineering and Management Sciences from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (2000), as well as a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University (1998).