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Scott Barrett

Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics , Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs

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Scott Barrett is a leading scholar on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to disease eradication. His research focuses on how institutions like norms, customary law, resolutions, and treaties can be used to promote international cooperation. 

He has advised a number of international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD, the European Commission, and the International Task Force on Global Public Goods. He was previously a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a member of the Academic Panel to the Department of Environment in the UK.

Barrett previously taught at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he also directed the International Policy program. Before that, he was on the faculty of the London Business School. He has also been a visiting scholar at Yale. Barrett is a research fellow with the Beijer Institute (Stockholm), CESifo (Munich), and the Kiel Institute of World Economics.

He received his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics; an M.A. in economics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver; and a B.S., summa cum laude, in resource economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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