Leadership
Meet the Vice Provost
James H. Stock is Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University; Director, The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard 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’s 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 at Harvard 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
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 at Harvard Law School and Director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program
Noel Michele Holbrook
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Harvard Forest
David Keith
Professor of Applied Physics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
Megan Murray
Professor of Global Health and Director of Research, Global Health & Social Medicine at Harvard 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 at Harvard 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 at Harvard 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 at Harvard 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 at Harvard 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 at Harvard 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