Join Harvard Griffin GSAS Dean Emma Dench and Professor Robert Stavins, PhD ’88, A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, and director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, for a conversation about Stavins’ work in addressing the urgent challenges of climate change through technological innovation, economic strategies, and mitigation policies, as well as Harvard’s responsibility as a leading university with global impact to address climate challenges.
Event Details
8:00 a.m. – Doors open for registration; breakfast begins
8:30 a.m. – Conversation with Dean Dench and Professor Stavins
9:30 a.m. – Breakfast continues
Event Cost
Harvard Griffin GSAS alumni and recent graduates (’18-’23): $20
Harvard alumni, members of the Harvard community, and guests: $25
Speaker Biographies
Emma Dench
Emma Dench was born in York, grew up near Stratford-Upon-Avon, and studied at Wadham College, Oxford (BA Hons Literae Humaniores), and at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (DPhil in Ancient History). Before taking up a joint appointment in the Departments of the Classics and of History at Harvard in January 2007, Dench taught classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been a Craven fellow at the University of Oxford, a Rome scholar and a Hugh Last fellow at the British School of Rome, a Cotton fellow, a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a visiting professor of the Classics and of History at Harvard, and a Loeb Classical Library Foundation fellow.
Dench is the author of From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines, Romulus’ Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian, and “Imperialism and Culture in the Roman World” for the Cambridge University Press series Key Themes in Ancient History. Other current projects include a study of the retrospective writing of the Roman Republican past in classical antiquity.
While at Harvard, Dench received a Harvard College Professorship in recognition of “outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, mentoring, and advising,” a Marquand Award for Excellent Advising and Counseling, and an Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award for her mentorship of graduate students.
Robert Stavins, PhD ’88
Robert N. Stavins is the A. J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development at Harvard Kennedy School, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, director of Graduate Studies for the Doctoral Program in Public Policy, co-chair of the Harvard Business School-Kennedy School Joint Degree Programs, and director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. He is a university fellow of Resources for the Future, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an elected fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vice chair of the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future, and coeditor of the Journal of Wine Economics. He was founding editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, chairman of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, and lead author or coordinating lead author of the Second, Third, and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His research has focused on diverse areas of environmental economics and policy and has appeared in hundreds of articles in scholarly journals and in more than a dozen books. He has been a consultant to US administrations, members of Congress, environmental organizations, the World Bank, the United Nations, state and national governments, and private foundations and firms. He holds a BA in philosophy from Northwestern University, an MS in agricultural economics from Cornell, and a PhD in economics from Harvard.
Join Harvard Griffin GSAS Dean Emma Dench and Professor Robert Stavins, PhD ’88, A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, and director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, for a conversation about Stavins’ work in addressing the urgent challenges of climate change through technological innovation, economic strategies, and mitigation policies, as well as Harvard’s responsibility as a leading university with global impact to address climate challenges.
Event Details
8:00 a.m. – Doors open for registration; breakfast begins
8:30 a.m. – Conversation with Dean Dench and Professor Stavins
9:30 a.m. – Breakfast continues
Event Cost
Harvard Griffin GSAS alumni and recent graduates (’18-’23): $20
Harvard alumni, members of the Harvard community, and guests: $25
Speaker Biographies
Emma Dench
Emma Dench was born in York, grew up near Stratford-Upon-Avon, and studied at Wadham College, Oxford (BA Hons Literae Humaniores), and at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (DPhil in Ancient History). Before taking up a joint appointment in the Departments of the Classics and of History at Harvard in January 2007, Dench taught classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been a Craven fellow at the University of Oxford, a Rome scholar and a Hugh Last fellow at the British School of Rome, a Cotton fellow, a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a visiting professor of the Classics and of History at Harvard, and a Loeb Classical Library Foundation fellow.
Dench is the author of From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines, Romulus’ Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian, and “Imperialism and Culture in the Roman World” for the Cambridge University Press series Key Themes in Ancient History. Other current projects include a study of the retrospective writing of the Roman Republican past in classical antiquity.
While at Harvard, Dench received a Harvard College Professorship in recognition of “outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, mentoring, and advising,” a Marquand Award for Excellent Advising and Counseling, and an Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award for her mentorship of graduate students.
Robert Stavins, PhD ’88
Robert N. Stavins is the A. J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development at Harvard Kennedy School, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, director of Graduate Studies for the Doctoral Program in Public Policy, co-chair of the Harvard Business School-Kennedy School Joint Degree Programs, and director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. He is a university fellow of Resources for the Future, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an elected fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vice chair of the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future, and coeditor of the Journal of Wine Economics. He was founding editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, chairman of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, and lead author or coordinating lead author of the Second, Third, and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His research has focused on diverse areas of environmental economics and policy and has appeared in hundreds of articles in scholarly journals and in more than a dozen books. He has been a consultant to US administrations, members of Congress, environmental organizations, the World Bank, the United Nations, state and national governments, and private foundations and firms. He holds a BA in philosophy from Northwestern University, an MS in agricultural economics from Cornell, and a PhD in economics from Harvard.