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Former Faculty Affiliate

Charles Kolstad

Former Faculty Affiliate
King Center on Global Development

Charles D. Kolstad is an energy and environmental economist with a research focus on regulation, climate change, and energy markets. He has been a convening lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize), is a founding co-editor of the Oxford University Review of Environmental Economics and Policy and has served on many advisory boards. Kolstad formerly served as the president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

At Stanford, in addition to his affiliation with the department of economics, Kolstad held senior fellow appointments in the Precourt Institute for Energy, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the Woods Institute for the Environment. Prior to joining Stanford in 2012, Kolstad was on the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was a Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics, chair of the department of economics and co-director of the system-wide University of California Center for Energy and Environmental Economics.

Innovations in Methods and Data
Environment and Climate Change