Marshall Burke
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Professor
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Deputy Director
Center on Food Security and the Environment
Senior Fellow
Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI)
Senior Fellow
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Marshall Burke is Professor of Global Environmental Policy in the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is also a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
His research uses tools from the social and natural sciences to measure environmental change, understand how society is impacted by this change, and evaluate how it can respond. His work spans topics including climate change, air pollution, food security, and poverty measurement, and combines methods from economics, statistics, remote sensing, and machine learning.
He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley, and a BA in International Relations from Stanford.
He directs the Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab (ECHO Lab) at Stanford, is co-founder of Atlas AI, and co-creator of the Environmental Hazards Adaptation Atlas.
Focal Areas: Energy and Environment, Global Development and Trade, Health, Housing and Infrastructure, Inequality, Innovation and Technology, Work