Author

James H. Stock

Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability and Director of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University

As of latest THP publication:

James H. Stock is vice provost for climate and sustainability, Harvard University; director of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, 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 a 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.