Geoffrey Heal
Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise in the Faculty of Business and Professor of International and Public Affairs at School of International and Public Affairs
Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School
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- Columbia Business School
- School of International and Public Affairs
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School of International and Public Affairs
Focus areas: Economic theory, resource and environmental economics
Geoffrey Heal is the Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility at Columbia Business School, and is noted for contributions to economic theory and resource ad environmental economics.
Author of eighteen books and about 200 articles, he is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Past President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, recipient of its prize for publications of enduring quality and a Life Fellow, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency and a Director of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Recent books include Nature and the Marketplace, Valuing the Future and When Principles Pay. He chaired a committee of the National Academy of Sciences on valuing ecosystem services, was a Commissioner of the Pew Oceans Commission, and is a Director of Petromin Holdings PNG Ltd., co-founded and Chairs the Advisory Board of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations and was a member of President Sarkozy''s Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. He has been a principal in two start-up companies, one a consulting firm and the other in software and telecommunications.
Professor Heal earned his first class honors BA from Churchill College, University of Cambridge from where he also received his PhD in 1968. From 1966 to 1967 he was a Flood fellow at University of California, Berkeley. From 1969 to 1973 he served as the director of dtudies in economics at Christ''s College, Cambridge. From 1973 to 1980 he was a professor of economics at University of Sussex, followed by a three-year appointment as a professor of economics at the same university. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University, Stanford University, Université de Paris XII, Princeton University, University of Stockholm, Institute for Mathematics and Applications at the University of Minnesota, University of Siena, and Université de Paris X Nanterre.
Education
- PhD, University of Cambridge
- BA, first class honors, University of Cambridge
Affiliations
- Fellow, Econometric Society
- Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- Scientific Advisory Board, US Environmental Protection Agency
- Union of Concerned Scientists
Honors & Awards
- Association of Environmental and Resource Economists'' prize for Publications of Enduring Quality
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and SIPA''s David Dinkins are among featured participants.
Columbia Business School
Biography
Geoffrey Heal, Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School, is noted for contributions to economic theory and resource and environmental economics. He holds bachelors (first class), masters and doctoral degrees from Cambridge University, where he studied at Churchill College and taught at Christ’s College. He has also taught at Sussex, Essex, Yale, Stanford, École Polytechnique, Stockholm and Princeton. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Universite´ de Paris Dauphine.
Author of eighteen books and about two hundred articles, Professor Heal is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, past Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies, Past President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, recipient of its prize for publications of enduring quality and a Life Fellow, recipient of the 2013 Best Publication Prize of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, a Director of the Union of Concerned Scientists and a founder and Director and chairman of the Board of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, developers of the REDD policy for reducing deforestation by awarding carbon credits for forest conservation. Recent books include Nature and the Marketplace, Valuing the Future, When Principles Pay and Whole Earth Economics (forthcoming).
Professor Heal chaired a committee of the National Academy of Sciences on valuing ecosystem services, was a Commissioner of the Pew Oceans Commission, was a coordinating lead author of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, was a member of President Sarkozy’s Commission on the Meaurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, was a member of the advisory board for the World Bank’s 2010 World Development Report and the United Nations Environment Program’s 2011 Human Development Report, and acts as an advisor to the World Bank on its Green Growth project. He is also a Director of Public Business, a foundation that promotes in-depth public interest journalism and a member of the Advisory Board of Green Seal.
He has been a principal in two start-up companies, a consulting firm and a software and telecommunications company, and until recently was a member of the Investment Committee of a green private equity group. He teaches MBA courses on “Current Developments in Energy Markets,” “Business and Society: Doing Well by Doing Good?” and “The Business of Sustainability,” teaches a doctoral course on advanced microeconomic theory, and advises doctoral students interested in sustainability.
Education
- P.h.D., Cambridge University
- M.A., Cambridge University
- B.A., Cambridge University
Videos
Conference on Carbon Pricing: Keynote by Geoffrey M. Heal
Geoffrey Heal - An Economist Looks at Climate Change
Geoffrey Heal: 20th Anniversary Conference of the Center on Capitalism and Society
Tracking the Transition to Net Zero Research Initiative
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