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Scott Barrett

sbarrett@jhu.edu

Harvard University Center for the Environment Visiting Scholar (April 2007)

Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University

Scott Barrett was the first Harvard University Center for the Environment Visiting Scholar, in April 2007. He was hosted during his visit by Prof. Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, and participated in several...

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Jing Cao

Primary affiliation: Visiting Scholar, Harvard China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment

Jing Cao is an Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University, Deputy Director of Climate Governance and Carbon Finance Research Center at Institute for Carbon Neutrality, Tsinghua University, and a long...

Eleanor Denny

HEEP Visiting Scholar (2014-2015)

Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland

Dr. Denny is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and is a visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the academic year 2014/2015. Dr. Denny was born in 1979 and studied Economics and Mathematics at...

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Massimo Filippini

HEEP Visiting Scholar (January-May 2014)

Professor at ETH Zurich and the University of Lugano

Massimo Filippini has held a dual professorship in public economics and energy economics at the ETH Zurich and the University of Lugano since October 1999. He is member of the Center for Economic Research at ETH Zurich (CER-ETH) and director of the Centre...

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Carsten Helm

carsten.helm@uni-oldenburg.de

Visiting Scholar (2013)

Professor for Public Economics at the University of Oldenburg, Germany

Carsten Helm is Professor for Public Economics at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Before that he was Associate Professor at the Technical University Darmstadt and Assistant Professor at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and the Humboldt...

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Kelsey Jack

Primary affiliation: Visiting Professor, MIT Department of Economics

Kelsey is an Associate Professor at UCSB in the Bren School and Department of Economics. She conducts research at the intersection of environmental and development economics, with a focus on how individuals, households, and communities decide to use...

Charles D. Kolstad

ckolstad@stanford.edu

Harvard University Center for the Environment Visiting Scholar (December 2007)

Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Prof. Charles D. Kolstad of Stanford University is an internationally known environmental economist with research interests are in information, uncertainty and regulation; he does much of his applied work in the area of climate change and energy markets...

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Robyn Meeks

Primary affiliation: Visiting Climate Fellow at Harvard Business School's Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society

Robyn Meeks is an assistant professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and a research affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT. During the 2023 – 2024 academic year, Professor Meeks is a BiGS Climate...

Torben Mideksa

torben_mideksa@post.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow with The Keith Group at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

HEEP Visiting Scholar (January-May 2015)

Torben K. Mideksa is a Postdoctoral Fellow with The Keith Group at the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Fellow of the Weatherhead Initiative on Climate Engineering at Harvard University; Assistant Professor at the Department of...

William Pizer

billy.pizer@duke.edu

Harvard University Center for the Environment Visiting Scholar (April 2008)

Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

Billy Pizer is the Susan B. King Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the Sanford School of Public Policy and Faculty Fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, both at Duke University. His current...

Jairam Ramesh

Fisher Family Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project,

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School (Sept. - Nov. 2014)

Member of Indian Parliament

Mr. Ramesh is a Member of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh and a leader in international climate negotiations. He was chief negotiator for India at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has been a leading figure...

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Katharine R.E. Sims

HEEP Visiting Scholar (2011-2012)

Professor of Economics and of Environmental Studies, Amherst College

Ph.D. Political Economy and Government

Katharine Sims is a Professor in the Economics and Environmental Studies Departments at Amherst College. She studies how policies simultaneously affect environmental protection and economic development and how changes in policy design can improve the...