Outside Activities of Robert N. Stavins

My responsibilities as a faculty member of the Harvard Kennedy School include research, teaching, outreach initiatives (which involve, in part, communicating research results and policy options), and university administrative responsibilities. Fulfilling some of these responsibilities – in particular outreach initiatives – frequently involves engagement with other organizations. Also, I periodically engage in outside activities (that is, engagement in my personal capacity, rather than as a representative of Harvard University or my research programs at the Kennedy School) with a range of organizations in the public, non-profit, and private sectors. All of these outside activities draw on my professional expertise, and typically involve activities such as speaking, reviewing, writing, editing, consulting, or serving on panels or advisory boards.

In my experience, such outside professional relationships are of considerable value in helping me meet my core responsibilities. Because of my central interest in the use of economic analysis to develop better public policies in the environmental, energy, and natural resources realm, it is of great value for me to understand the perspectives of practitioners in environmental advocacy groups, other non-governmental organizations, governments, and private firms. I find that working closely with such practitioners is a highly effective way of gaining this sort of understanding.

Also, because I am motivated not just to study and understand public policy, but to help practitioners improve it, I try very hard to make my scholarship relevant to the challenges practitioners actually face. For the same reason, I try to present some of my work in forms that are useful to such audiences. Relationships with practitioners of various kinds help me increase the relevance of my scholarship and communicate it to the world of professional practice.

Following is a list in alphabetical order of professional relationships I have had with organizations around the world over approximately the past three years. I have received monetary compensation for some of these, expenses only for others, and no financial payments for others.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation	Refereeing
American Economic Association	Refereeing
Analysis Group	Consulting
Aspen Institute	Speaking
Big Think, Inc.	Speaking
Boston Globe	Writing
Boston Red Sox	Consulting
Cambridge University Press	Writing
Canon Institute	Speaking
Center for European Economic Research	Speaking
Chevron	Consulting
Climate Change Economics	Member, editorial board
Columbia University	Reviewing, writing, speaking
Cornell University	Speaking
Duke Energy	Consulting
Earthscan Publishing	Writing
Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd.	Writing
Environmental Defense Fund	Speaking, Writing, Consulting
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies	Member, editorial council
Environmental Law Institute	Writing
Exelon	Consulting
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Greater Boston Real Estate Board	Member, scientific advisory board Research, writing
Green Orbis	Writing and speaking
Inter-American Development Bank	Speaking
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change	Writing
Institute of European and International Affairs	Speaking
Journal of Wine Economics	Editor
London School of Economics Major League Baseball	Speaking Consulting, Speaking
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons	Speaking, writing Speaking
Miami Dolphins	Consulting
Ministry of Economy, Trade, & Industry, Japan	Speaking
National Bureau of Economic Research	Writing
National Science Foundation	Consulting
New York Times	Writing
Oxford University Press	Writing
Pew Center on Global Climate Change	Writing
Princeton University	Speaking
Regulatory Markets Center	Member, board of academic advisors
Resource and Energy Economics	Member, editorial board
Resources for the Future	Member, board of directors
Review of Environmental Economics & Policy	Co-editor
Rice University	Speaking
San Diego State University	Speaking
Singapore Government	Speaking
Southern Methodist University	Speaking
Stanford University	Speaking
Taylor and Francis Group	Writing
Texas A & M University	Speaking
United Nations Environment Programme	Writing
University of California	Speaking, writing
University of Connecticut	Speaking
University of Chicago	Writing, speaking, refereeing
University of Geneva Graduate Institute	Speaking
University of Pittsburgh	Speaking
University of Wyoming	Speaking
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency	Chair and member, scientific advisory board
Wellesley College	Speaking
Western States Petroleum Association	Consulting
World Bank	Speaking
World Trade Organization	Speaking
W. W. Norton & Company	Writing
Yale University [Last Updated: May 28, 2013]	Speaking