Berkeley Haas has talented, award-winning faculty whose research interests span various sustainability-related topics, from energy and environmental economics to sustainable supply chains to impact investing. Our faculty produce research and analysis, backed by rigorous empirical evidence so policy and business decisions can be based on sound economic and business principles.
- Professor Severin Borenstein research on the economics of renewable energy, economic policies for reducing greenhouse gasses, and electricity pricing, regular state and national news commentator and co-director of the Energy Institute.
- Professor Lucas Davis research on energy and environmental markets including household, state policy and transportation [link]
- Brian Steele and Sheeraz Haji, directors and faculty for the Cleantech to Market program
- Associate Professor Reed Walker research on social and racial costs of environmental externalities and regulation and co-director of UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab’s Climate and Environment Initiative
- Professor Laura D. Tyson state and national policy advisor on economics, trade and development, co-director of the Sustainable and Impact Finance initiative and chair of the Blum Center for Developing Economies
- Professor Adair Morse research on impact investing and ESG disclosure, co-director of the Sustainable and Impact Finance initiative and currently on leave serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Capital Access at the U.S. Treasury.
- Jillian Greenan faculty for the Haas Sustainable Investment Fund course and program
- Professor Panos Patatoukas research on ESG disclosure and risk [link]
- Professor Nancy Wallace research on climate risk and market pricing [link] and co-chair of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics
- Professor Paul Gertler research on impact evaluation and international development, director of the Institute for Business and Social Impact
- Robert Strand expert on U.S. and Nordic approaches to sustainable and socially responsible business and Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business
- Will Rosenzeig director and faculty for Plant Futures Sustainable Food program
- Assistant Professor Sytkse Wijnsma research on designing supply chain and policy interventions with social and environmental impact [link]
- Professor Clayton Critcher published No good deed goes unquestioned: Cynical reconstruals maintain belief in the power of self-interest in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Clayton Critcher also published Visceral fit: While in a visceral state, associated states of the world seem more likely in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Oakland firestorm escape fuels Prof. Nancy Wallace’s research on climate risk
As wildfires bordering developed areas in the Western U.S., Australia, and around the world grow increasingly frequent and intense, Wallace has been crisscrossing the country and globe, presenting to government, business, and academic groups about the massive financial risk fires pose to the housing, real estate, and insurance markets—and to investors and homeowners.
Reed Walker on Gap in Pollution Exposure
Reed Walker, Faculty Affiliate at the Energy Institute, is cited in the Haas Newsroom examining racial disparities in pollution exposure
Politics won’t stop ESG progress: Q&A with Panos Patatoukas (Part 1)
As investors pay increasing attention to companies’ track records on environmental, social, and governance issues such as executive compensation, trillions of dollars have flowed into the ESG investing industry.