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Professor Robert STAVINS
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, U.S.A.

Prof. Robert Stavins Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Tel: +1.617.4951820 Fax: +1.617.4963783 E-mail: robert_stavins@harvard.edu

Robert N. Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Director of the Environmental Economics Program at Harvard University. He is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future (RFF) , the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, and a member of the Board of Directors of RFF, the Board of Academic Advisors of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, the Executive Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board, the editorial boards of Resource and Energy Economics, Land Economics, Environmental Economics Abstracts, B.E. Journals of Economic Analysis & Policy, and Economic Issues, and a contributing editor of Environment. He was previously a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Chairman of the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board, and a Lead Author in the Second and Third Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Stavins' research has focused on diverse areas of environmental economics and policy, and has appeared in more than one hundred articles in scholarly journals, books, and popular periodicals. He is the editor of Economics of the Environment (W.W. Norton, 2005), co-editor of Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms (RFF Press, 2005), editor of The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation (Edward Elgar, 2004), co-editor of Public Policies for Environmental Protection (RFF Press, 2000), and the author of Environmental Economics and Public Policy: Selected Papers of Robert N. Stavins, 1988-1999 (Edward Elgar, 2000). He directed Project 88, a bi-partisan effort co-chaired by former Senator Timothy Wirth and the late Senator John Heinz, to develop innovative approaches to environmental and resource problems. He has been a consultant to the White House in several administrations, members of Congress, the World Bank, the United Nations, non-governmental organizations, foundations, and firms. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Northwestern University, an M.S. in agricultural economics from Cornell, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard.