Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. His research interests are in environmental economics with a focus on climate change, agriculture, land use, and ecosystem services. He often uses satellite data and remote sensing to help answer policy questions. Prior to academia, he held positions at The Earth Partners LP, a sustainable land investment company, McKinsey & Company, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is the co-founder of Drylands Natural Resource Centre. He received a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University in 2022 and was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.
The Salata Institute
The Salata Institute supports interdisciplinary research that leads to real-world action, including high-risk/high-reward projects by researchers already working in the climate area and new endeavors that make it easier for Harvard scholars, who have not worked on climate problems, to do so. Faculty interested in the Climate Research Clusters program should note an upcoming deadline for concepts on April 1, 2024.