Dustin Tingley

Dustin Tingley is a Professor of Government at Harvard University and holds a joint appointment at the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy. He serves as Interim Vice Provost for Advances in Learning and directs the Data Science and Technology Group and the Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching. He earned a PhD in Politics from Princeton and a BA in political science and math from the University of Rochester.

• Key Roles: Deputy Vice Provost (past), Chair of Harvard's Standing Committee on Climate Education
• Research Focus: Climate change politics, data science, causal inference, and international political economy

His recent work explores the political economy of climate transitions, public opinion on carbon policies, and machine learning applications in social sciences. He co-founded ABLConnect, a repository for active learning pedagogy, and organized conferences on causal mechanisms, teaching with AI, and equitable classrooms.

• Awards: Gladys M. Kammerer Award (2015) for co-authored book Sailing the Water’s Edge
• Notable Publications:
  • Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse (2023, with Alex Gazmararian)
  • The Political Economy of the Clean Energy Transition (2025)