Scott Barrett

Scott Barrett is the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics in the School of International and Public Affairs and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He received a B.S., summa cum laude, in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an M.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics. He was previously a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC and, before that, at the London Business School. He has held visiting appointments at École Polytechnique, Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin), the London School of Economics, Princeton, Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs, Yale, and Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He received the Resources for the Future Dissertation Prize, the Publication of Enduring Quality Award from the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), the Erik Kempe Prize from the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and an honorary degree from the University of Bath. He is a fellow of AERE and the Beijer Institute in Stockholm, and an elected member of the NAS.