anet Gyatso is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibetan and South Asian cultural and intellectual history. Her 2015 book Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press) focuses upon alternative early mode…
Janet Gyatso
Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH is a primary care physician and Director of Education and Policy at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School (HMS). His work focuses on the in…
Gaurab Basu
Primary Care Physician and Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy at Cambridge Health Alliance Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Laura Schifter is a lecturer on education with the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she teaches courses on federal policy and special education. She is also a senior fellow with the Aspen Institute leading the K-12 Climate Action initiative and a fellow with the Century Foundation. Prev…
Laura Schifter
Lecturer on Education
Hannah M. Teicher is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Her research is broadly concerned with how mitigation and adaptation to climate change are shaping urban transformations across scales. Recent research projects have centered on colla…
Hannah Teicher
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
Erin Driver-Linn, PhD, is the Dean for Education at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a member of the faculty in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. As Dean for Education, she has broad responsibility across the Office of Education, which includes the Office for Stud…
Erin Driver-Linn
Dean for Education at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Rebecca Nesson
Dean for Academic Programs
Dustin Tingley is Professor of Government in the Government Department at Harvard University. Dustin is Deputy Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Faculty director for the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Data Science and Technology Group (Harvard higher education data science group), and…
Dustin Tingley
Professor of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Courtney manages student and alumni engagement and creates networks and opportunities that encourage these groups to address climate change. She also oversees the implementation of infrastructure supporting increased career and entrepreneurial opportunities for students. Prior to joining the BEI …
Courtney Fairbrother
Associate Director
Logan McCarty, Assistant Dean of Science Education, teaches in the undergraduate curriculum in both Physics and Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and oversees efforts to improve undergraduate teaching and learning across the sciences. Logan works closely with the Directors of Undergraduate Studies …
Logan McCarty
Assistant Dean of Science Education
Ian Miller is a historian of Japan and its modern empire whose research is primarily focused on the cultural dimensions of scientific, technological, and environmental change. He began his career as a cultural historian because he discovered, early in his graduate training at Columbia University,…
Ian Miller
Professor of History, Faculty Dean of Cabot House
Lynn leads BEI’s efforts on alumni engagement, case marketing, curriculum development and other aspects of faculty engagement. Previously Lynn was a VP in the Infrastructure and Energy group at Citigroup and a Director at the William J. Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Climate Initiative. Lynn has le…
Lynn Schenk
Director, BEI, HBS
Professor Michele Holbrook studies the physics and physiology of vascular transport in plants with the goal of understanding how constraints on the movement of water and solutes between soil and leaves influences ecological and evolutionary processes. Dr. Holbrook is currently working on question…
N. Michele Holbrook
Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Director of the Harvard Forest, Faculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum, Affiliate of Environmental Science and Engineering
Richard Lazarus is the Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he teaches environmental law, natural resources Law, Supreme Court advocacy, and torts. Professor Lazarus has represented the United States, state and local governments, and environmental groups in the…
Richard J. Lazarus
Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Robert N. Stavins is the A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development, Director of Graduate Studies for the Doctoral Programs in Public Policy and in Political Economy and Government, Cochair of the MPP/MBA and MPA/ID/MBA Joint Degree Programs. He is the Director of the Harvard Envir…
Robert Stavins
A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
A 2006 PhD from Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literatures), Professor Thornber is a cultural historian and scholar of Asian literature and media working primarily in the fields of environmental humanities; medical and health hu…
Karen Thornber
Professor in Literature, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, Faculty Chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, and teaches the Technology & Operations Management core MBA course. Mike Toffel’s research examines how companies are managing environmental is…
Michael Toffel
Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, Harvard Business School
Lindi von Mutius is the inaugural Director of the Salata Institute Climate Action Accelerator. Lindi most recently served as the Director of the Sustainability and Global Development Practice graduate programs at the Harvard University Division of Continuing Education (DCE). During her time at DC…
Lindi von Mutius
Director, Climate Action Accelerator
Suzanne J. Cooper is the Academic Dean for Teaching and Curriculum and the Edith M. Stokey Senior Lecturer in Public Policy. As the ADTC, she is responsible for all aspects of the Kennedy School’s teaching mission and works on a broad range of academic and faculty issues, including Educational Te…
Suzanne Cooper
Academic Dean for Teaching and Curriculum Edith M. Stokey Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Rakesh Khurana, professor of sociology and organizational behavior at Harvard University and former Faculty Dean of Cabot House, became Danoff Dean of Harvard College on July 1, 2014.
Khurana received his B.S. from Cornell University, and began graduate studies at Harvard in 1993, earning his Ph….
Rakesh Khurana
Danoff Dean of Harvard College and Professor of Sociology and Organizational Behavior
Dr. Kari Nadeau is the Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health and John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies. She practices Allergy, Asthma, Immunology in children and adults. She has published over 400+ papers, many in the field of climate c…
Kari Nadeau
John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies Environmental Health
Bharat N. Anand is the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University, and the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Professor Anand is an expert in digital strategy, media and entertainment strategy, corporate strategy, and organizational ch…
Bharat Anand
Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University, and the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Jason Beckfield (he/him/his) is the Robert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, where he is also the Associate Director of the Center for Population and Development Studies. He took his PhD. in Sociology in 2005 at Indiana University in Bloomington, and later taught at the U…
Jason Beckfield
Robert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Janet Browne’s interests range widely over the history of the life and earth sciences and natural history. She came to Harvard in 2006 and teaches a variety of courses on evolutionary history and the history of natural history. After a first degree in zoology she studied for a PhD in the history …
Janet Browne
Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus
Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, social enterprise, and impact investing.
Much of his research examines corporate and household finance in emerging markets, with a focus on insurance, credit, an…
Shawn Cole
John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration
Sarah holds a BA from Carleton College (2006); an MFA from New York University (2010); and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017). Her interests include 20th– and 21st-century Anglophone Literatures; Climate Fiction and Literature; Environmental Justice Writing; Postcolonial …
Sarah Dimick
Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
Professor Hammitt’s research concerns the development and application of quantitative methods—including benefit-cost, decision, and risk analysis—to health and environmental policy. Topics include management of long-term environmental issues with important scientific uncertainties, such as …
James K. Hammitt
Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences, Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health
Jerold S. Kayden is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Founding Director of the Master in Real Estate Program. He previously served as co-chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and director of the …
Jerold Kayden
Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design Founding Director, Master in Real Estate Program
Amanda McMahon
Director of Administration, Office of the Dean
Ann Pearson’s research focuses on applications of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen isotope geochemistry and molecular biology to biogeochemistry, oceanography, and Earth history. Through study of the “how, when, and why” of microbial processes, her work yields insight about environmental con…
Ann Pearson
Chair, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Fernando Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative at Harvard University. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Education and of the International Academy of Education. An expert i…
Fernando Reimers
Faculty Info Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education
Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket strategy, the relations between government regulation and corporate strategy, the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources, and the economics of externalities and public goods. He…
Forest L. Reinhardt
John D. Black Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure, Harvard Business School
Daniel P. Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Professor of Public Policy.
Schrag studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth history. He is particularly interested in how information o…
Daniel P. Schrag
Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Professor of Public Policy, Director of the Science Technology, and Public Policy Program, HKS
Dr. Caren Solomon is a deputy editor at the New England Journal of Medicine, an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she maintains a part-time clinical practice at the Fish Center for Women’s Health. At the Journal, Dr. …
Caren Solomon
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Deputy Editor, New England Journal of Medicine; Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Robert C. Stowe is Executive Director of the Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions – a three-year initiative supported by the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University. He is also Co-Director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements (Harvard Proje…
Robert C. Stowe
Executive Director of the Harvard Initiative to Reduce Global Methane Emissions
Research in the Sunderland Lab focuses on how biogeochemical processes affect the fate, transport and food web bioaccumulation of trace metals and organic chemicals. Her group develops and applies models at a variety of scales ranging from ecosystems and ocean basins (e.g., the Gulf of Maine, the…
Elsie Sunderland
Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering in the Department of Environmental Health, Affiliate of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in Numbers explores how even weak groups in society are…
Gunnar Trumbull
Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration
