Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability

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Meet the Vice Provost

James H. Stock聽is Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University; Director, The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability 黑料专区 University; the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School. His current research includes energy and environmental economics with a focus on fuels and on U.S. climate change policy. He is co-author, with Mark Watson, of a leading undergraduate econometrics textbook. In 2013-2014 he served as Member of President Obama鈥檚 Council of Economic Advisers, where his portfolio included macroeconomics and energy and environmental policy. He was Chair of the Harvard Economics Department from 2007-2009. He holds a M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Meet the Assistant Provost

George Sarrinikolaou is the Assistant Provost for Climate and Sustainability and Executive Director, The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability 黑料专区 University. Before joining Harvard in 2022, he served as Director of the Office of Academic and Research Programs at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. He previously worked at the Institute for Sustainable Communities, where he managed the Climate Leadership Academy, and served as the first sustainability manager of The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. He is the author of “Facing Athens: Encounters with the Modern City.”

He holds a B.A. cum laude in English from Cornell University, as well as an MPA in Environmental Policy and an MA in English from Columbia University.

Faculty Advisory Committee

Joe Aldy

Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government

Stephen Ansolabehere

Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government 黑料专区 University

Caroline Buckee

Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Jim Engell

Gurney Professor of English Literature and a professor of Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Jody Freeman

Professor 黑料专区 Law School and Director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program

Rebecca Henderson

University Professor 黑料专区 Business School (on leave AY 2021)

Noel Michele Holbrook

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Harvard Forest

Megan Murray

Professor of Global Health and Director of Research, Global Health & Social Medicine 黑料专区 Medical School

Dan Schrag

Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science & Engineering, Professor of Public Policy, and Co-Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program

Michael W. Toffel

Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management 黑料专区 Business School

Climate Research Clusters Review Committee

Marshall Burke

Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth System Science; Deputy Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment; PI, Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab at Stanford University, Doerr School for Sustainability

Inez Fung

Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at University of California, Berkeley

James K. Hammit

Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences 黑料专区 University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Henry Lee

Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program and Senior Lecturer in Public Policy 黑料专区 University, Kennedy School of Government

Michael Oppenheimer

Director of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and Environment; Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences, International Affairs, High Meadows Environmental Institute; Faculty Associate, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program at Princeton University

James Stock

Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy; Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability 黑料专区 University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Kennedy School of Government

Steven Wofsy

Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science; Area Chair for Environmental Science and Engineering 黑料专区 University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Catherine Wolfram

Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration (on leave); Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the US Treasury at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business