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Bård Harstad

Senior Fellow
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

The David S. Lobel Professor in Business and Sustainability
Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB)

Professor of Environmental Social Sciences
Doerr School of Sustainability

Professor of Economics (by courtesy)
School of Humanities and Sciences

Harstad held the Max McGraw Chair in Management & Environment, Kellogg School of Management, and was a professor at the University of Oslo, before coming to Stanford in 2023. He has also taught at Harvard, MIT, and Toulouse School of Economics.

Focal Areas: Energy and Environment, Global Development and Trade