Bård Harstad

Bård Harstad is the David S. Lobel Professor in Business and Sustainability and Professor of Political Economy at Stanford University's Doerr School of Sustainability. He holds courtesy appointments as Professor of Economics at Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences. Previously at the University of Oslo and Kellogg School of Management, Harstad's research bridges Environmental Economics, Political Economy, and Game Theory.

• Key Research Themes:
  • Climate treaty design and international cooperation
  • Supply-side environmental policy
  • Political economy of conservation
  • Dynamic games in environmental economics
• Recent Work Trends:
  • Focus on self-enforcing agreements and pledge-and-review mechanisms (2023-2025)
  • Analysis of natural gas transition risks (2025)
  • Trade-deforestation linkages and contingent trade agreements (2023-2024)

Scientific Recognition:

• Double Erik Kempe Award (2013, 2019)
• ERC Advanced Grant (2022), Consolidator (2016-2021), and Starting Grant (2012-2016)
• Fellow of Econometric Society (2021) and Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi (2019)

Teaching & Leadership: Currently teaching Environmental Economics (PhD) at Stanford, with past appointments at Harvard, MIT, and Toulouse School of Economics. Served as Editor, Review of Economic Studies (2015-2022).