Watch the Climate@HKS Virtual Open House
Hear directly from HKS faculty about course offerings, events, and research in climate, environment, energy, and sustainability. Additional information about individual faculty members is listed below.
Focus Areas
- Climate change policy
- Energy policy
- Environmental economics
- Regulatory policy
Research Positions
- Faculty Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
- Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
- Principal Investigator, Evaluating Global Climate Change Policy in Practice
- Co-PI, Decision Theory and Anomalies on Solar Geoengineering, Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program (SGRP)
Links and Media
Focus Areas
- Public finance
- Resource allocation
- Public land management and conservation
- National Parks
- Natural capital and ecosystem accounting
- United Nations SEEA (System of Economic Environmental Accounting)
Research Positions
- Faculty Director, Greater Boston Applied Finance Lab and Bloomberg Cities Field Lab
- United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (Member for the United States). Chair the Working Group on Climate and Biodiversity
Links and Media
- Website: www.lindabilmes.org
- Twitter: @LJBilmes
- Book: Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs: America's Best Investment
Focus Areas
- The future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle
- Policies to promote innovation in energy technologies
Research Positions
- Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center
Links and Media
Focus Areas
- Sustainability science & sustainable development
- Use of science to inform policy
Research Positions
- Director, Sustainability Science Program, Mossavar-Rahmani Center
- Faculty Chair, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center
Links and Media
- Twitter: @william_c_clark
- Website: Sustainability Science
Focus Areas
- Energy technology
- Climate change
- Nuclear arms control
- Science & technology policy
Research Positions
- Co-Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP), Belfer Center
- Co-Director, Arctic Initiative, Belfer Center
- Co-PI, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center
- Co-PI, Energy Innovation for Deep Emissions Reductions in India, STPP
- Co-PI, US-China Trajectories for Deep Emissions Reductions, STPP
Links and Media
- Harvard Scholar
Focus Areas
- Role of expertise in national and international climate policy
- Transitions to sustainability in energy, agriculture, urbanization
- Comparative politics of climate in Europe, US, and India
Research Positions
- Faculty Director, Program on Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
- PI, Multiple Carbons: Challenges for Politics and Governance, SGRP
- PI, Traveling Imaginaries of Innovation: The Practice Turn and Its Transnational Implementation, STS
- PI, Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations, STS
- PI, RAPID: Collaborative Research: a Comparative Study of Expertise for Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Links and Media
- Website: sheilajasanoff.org
- Host, STS Circle
- Host, Science and Democracy Lecture Series
Focus Areas
- Homeland security
- Resiliency and safety
- Infrastructure protection
Research Positions
- Faculty Chair, Homeland Security Project, Belfer Center
- Faculty Chair, Security and Global Health Project, Belfer Center
Links and Media
- Twitter: @juliettekayyem
- Website: juliettekayyem.com
- The Atlantic column
Focus Areas
- Solar geoengineering
- Energy technology
- Climate science and policy
Research Positions
- Faculty Director, Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program (SGRP)
Links and Media
- Twitter: @DKeithClimate
Focus Areas
- Environmental policy
- Public infrastructure in developing countries
- China's energy policy
- U.S. climate policy
Research Positions
- Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center
- Co-Director, Arctic Initiative, Belfer Center
- PI, Energy Geopolitics, Technology, and Markets Policy, Belfer Center
- Co-PI, US-China Trajectories for Deep Emissions Reductions, Belfer Center
Focus Areas
- Energy policy
- Arctic regional policy
- Ocean pollution
Research Positions
- Co-Founder and Former Co-Director, Arctic Initiative, Belfer Center
- Founder, Arctic Innovation Lab
- Co-Curator, World Economic Forum's Arctic Transformation Map
Links and Media
- Twitter: @hallaiceland
Focus Areas
- Energy policy
- National security
- International negotiations
Research Positions
- Faculty Director, Geopolitics of Energy Project, Belfer Center
Links and Media
- Twitter: @OSullivanMeghan
- Website: osullivanmeghan.com
- Bloomberg Opinion column
Focus Areas
- Climate change
- Geology and environmental science
- Energy technology policy
Research Positions
- Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
- Co-Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center
- Steering Committee Member, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
- Advisory Committee, Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program
Links and Media
Focus Areas
- Development and technology policy
- Water
- Energy
- Agriculture
- Remote sensing and space systems
Research Positions
- Visiting Scholar, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center
Focus Areas
- Environmental economics
- Climate policy
Research Positions
- Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
- Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Links and Media
- Harvard Scholar
- Twitter: @RobertStavins
- Podcast: Environmental Insights: Conversations on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program
- Blog: An Economic View of the Environment
Focus Areas
- Land conservation
- Environmental policy
Research Positions
- Louis and Gabrielle Bacon Senior Fellow in Environmental Leadership, Center for Public Leadership
Focus Areas
- Economics of energy markets
- Energy efficiency
- Climate policy