Scott Barrett

Scott Barrett is Professor of Natural Resources at Columbia University.

He is also a research fellow with the Beijer Institute (Stockholm), CESifo (Munich), and the Institute of World Economics (Kiel). He was previously a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, an associate professor at the London Business School, and a visiting scholar at Yale.

His research focuses on institutional remedies to global collective action failures ranging from climate change to polio eradication. He is the author of Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making (2003; paperback, 2005) and Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods (2007; paperback, 2010), both published by Oxford University Press.

He was awarded the Erik Kempe Prize and the Resources for the Future Dissertation Prize, and received his PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.