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Sustainable Development


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Department Chair: Lisa Anderson, Ph.D.
1414 International Affairs Building
Tel: 212.854.4604


Director of Graduate Studies: John C. Mutter, Ph.D.

Dissertation Sponsors

Douglas Almond:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., Berkeley, 2002
Interests: Labor economics, health economics, education
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lisa Anderson:
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., Columbia, 1981
Interests: Comparative politics and Middle East, Arab world, North Africa, political development, regime change, Islamic politics, political liberalization, the state and state formation in the third world, comparative colonialism, economic reform in the third world
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Guillermo Calvo:
Professor, Ph.D., 1974, Yale
Interests: Macroeconomic policy in Latin America, capital flows
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mark A. Cane:
Professor G. Unger Vetlesen Professor, Earth and Climate Sciences,Ph.D., Ph.D., MIT, 1975
Interests: Climate dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics; impacts of climate on society, El Nino forecasting
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pierre-Andre Chiappori:
E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics, Ph.D., University of Paris, 1981
Interests: Micro: risk, insurance, household behavior, contract theory; Macro: general equilibrium; contract and organizational economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John Coatsworth:
Dean, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison), 1967
Interests: Latin America, Mexico, economic history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Rodolfo de la Garza:
Professor (Political Science, International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., Arizona, 1972
Interests: Political behavior and public policy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joshua Graff Zivin:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Berkeley, 1998
Interests: Ways in which uncertainty and heterogeneity affect both individual and societal decision-making
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Geoffrey Heal:
Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1968
Interests: Modeling the impact of markets for derivative securities on the allocation of risks in the economy; modeling the pricing of derivatives in a general equilibrium framework; and studying ways of controlling the impact of economic activity on the environment and ways of valuing the economic services provided by environmental assets
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jennifer Hill:
Assistant Professor (School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D, Harvard University, 2000
Interests: Education reform; opinion-changing behavior; child and family policy; program evaluation; methodological issues that plague policy research, primarily causal inference in the absence of randomized experiments and missing data
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Klaus S. Lackner:
Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Ph.D., Heidelberg, 1978
Interests: Carbon management, alternative fuels and energy management, fluid mechanics and transport processes, applied physics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Upmanu Lall:
Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science), Ph.D., Texas, 1981
Interests: Statistical and numerical modeling of hydrologic and climatic systems, planning and management of water resource systems;water quality; hydro-climatic change
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Leigh Linden:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
Interests: Development economics, economics of education, applied econometrics and political economy; determinants of child labor; markets for occupational health risks, applied microeconomics, political economy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Vijay Modi:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1984
Interests: Energy sources and conversion, energy infrastructure, fuel cells, heat/mass transfer, and fluid mechanics, CO2 sequestration, fuel cells, distributed sensing/control of flow, and heat transfer.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John C. Mutter:
Professor (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., Columbia, 1982
Interests: Science-based issues in sustainable development
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Shahid Naeem:
Professor (Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology), Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1989
Interests: Biodiversity, population biology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, invasions, global change
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sharyn O'Halloran:
George Blumenthal Professor (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1985
Interests: Political institutions and public policy, methodology, electoral politics, U.S. trade policy, globalization and international law
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jose Antonio Ocampo:
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, PhD, Yale, 1976
Interests: Macroeconomics policy in Latin America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Arvind Panagariya:
Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, Ph.D., Princeton, 1978
Interests: International trade and economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Cristian Pop-Eleches:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2003
Interests: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Demography and Transition Economies, labor economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jeffrey Sachs:
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Ph.D., Harvard, 1980
Interests: Sustainable development, economic development, technological change and growth, agricultural and natural resource economics, health, education and welfare, international macroeconomics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bernard Salanie:
Professor, Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1992
Interests: Contract theory, labor, microeconomics, organizational economics, econometrics, public economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Behaven Sampat:
Assistant Professor, PhD, Columbia, 2001
Interests: Intersection of health policy and innovation policy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pedro Sanchez:
Senior Research Scientist (Earth Institute), PhD, Cornell, 1986
Interests: Management of tropical soils through integrated natural resource management approaches
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wolfram Schlenker:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 2003
Interests: Applied microeconomics, natural resource economics, environmental economics, health economics, education economics, public economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joseph E. Stiglitz:
Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967
Interests: Information and financial economics, macro and monetary theory, development and international economics, microeconomics, industrial organization, contract and organizational economics, macroeconomics, public economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Miguel Urquiola:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D, California (Berkeley), 2000
Interests: Economic development, Chile, Bolivia
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bogdan Vasi:
Assistant Professor (Psychology), Ph.D., Cornell, 2005
Interests: Research methods, consumerism, collective action, and social movements; adoption and implementation of local programs to address global climate change; development of the wind energy industry; strategies for coping with tragedies of the commons
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eric Verhoogen:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 2004
Interests: Development economics, labor economics, international trade, Latin America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Paige West:
Associate Professor (Barnard), PhD, Rutgers, 2000
Interests: Environmentalism, globalization, critical anaylses of conservation and development, bioethics, consumption; Melanesia Pacific
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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