Robert Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, Chairman of the Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group at the Kennedy School, Director of Graduate Studies for the Doctoral Programs in Public Policy and Political Economy and Government, Co-Chair of the Harvard Business School Kennedy School Joint Degree Programs, and Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.

He has been a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences, several Administrations, Members of Congress, environmental advocacy groups, the World Bank, the United Nations, the U.S. Agency for International Development, state and national governments, and private foundations and firms. Prior to coming to Harvard, Stavins was a staff economist at the Environmental Defense Fund; and before that, he managed irrigation development in the Middle East, and spent four years working in agricultural extension in West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer.

His research has focused on diverse areas of environmental economics and policy, including examinations of: market based policy instruments; innovation and diffusion of pollution control technologies; environmental benefit valuation; and costs of carbon sequestration.

He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Northwestern University, an M.S. in agricultural economics from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
<BR><BR>하버드 케네디스쿨 교수. 하버드 환경경제 프로그램 학장이자 케네디스쿨 환경 및 자연자원 교수협의회 의장이다. 스태빈스 교수는 정부, 학계, UN과 세계은행, USAID 등 여러 기관의 환경경제 컨설턴트로도 다년간 활동하였다. 환경경제, 시장중심의 정책 기구, 혁신과 공해통제기술의 확산, 환경편익가치평가 및 탄소포집 관련 분야에 두루 명성이 높은 세계적 석학이다.