People

Patrick Behrer

behrer@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Public Policy 2020

Economist: Sustainability and Infrastructure team in the Development Research Group at the World Bank

Patrick Behrer is an Economist at the World Bank;s Sustainability and Infrastructure Team in the Research Group. In the Fall of 2020, Behrer was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Food Security and Environment at Stanford University. His fields of...

Mariia Belaia

mbelaia@g.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Affiliate Alumni

Former Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)

Mariia Belaia is a former postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Her faculty advisor was David W. Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at SEAS and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy...

Lori S. Bennear

Ph.D. Public Policy 2004

Stanback Dean of the Nicholas School, Duke University

Lori S. Bennear's research interests include environmental and natural resource economics, applied microeconomics, and empirical methods. Her research focuses on estimating the effects of various regulatory innovations on measures of facility-level...

Shweta Bhogale

Ph.D. Public Policy 2022

Post-doctoral Fellowship, JPALS' King Climate Action Initiative

Shweta's interests lie at the intersection of organizational economics and political economy in the context of common pool resources, particularly water. At Harvard, her research focused on the geographical and administrative determinants of water...

David Bloom

dbloom@hsph.harvard.edu

HEEP Faculty Fellow

Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

David Bloom is the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Professor Bloom has published over 80 articles and books in the fields of economics and demography. He has been honored with a...

Jonathan Borck

Ph.D. Public Policy 2008

Vice President, Analysis Group

Dr. Borck specializes in the application of economics and statistics in the areas of finance, antitrust economics, and energy and environment. His work in finance has included analyzing the performance of mortgages and mortgage-backed securities...

Jacob Bradt

jbradt@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. in Public Policy, 2024

Jacob is interested in applying insights from behavioral economics, industrial organization, and microeconomic theory to the study of environmental, energy, and climate-related issues. Prior to starting his doctoral studies, Jacob worked at the U.S...

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...

Jing Cao

Ph.D. Public Policy 2007

Associate Professor, Department of Economics at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China

Jing Cao is an associate professor at the Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. Her research interests are in the economics of the environment, energy economics, integrated modeling of economic and environment...

Tridevi Chakma

tchakma@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Public Policy 2024

Associate, Cornerstone Research, London

Tridevi is a PhD candidate in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. Her research focuses on environmental economics and public finance, with a particular interest in...

Ujjayant Chakravorty

ujjayant@gmail.com

Professor of Economics, Tufts University, Center for International Environment and Resources Policy at the Fletcher School

Research Associate at the Toulouse School of Economics

Ujjayant Chakravorty is a professor of economics at Tufts University and at the Center for International Environment and Resource policy at the Fletcher School. He is a Research Associate at the Toulouse School of Economics and Distinguished Visiting...

Gabriel Chan

Ph.D. Public Policy 2015

Assistant Professor, the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota

Gabe Chan is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) area. Gabe's research examines policies to stimulate innovation in energy technologies and...