Climate Policy Center

Christopher Knittel | George P. Shultz Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics
It is critical that universities contribute meaningfully to these conversations, ensuring research is accessible to decision-makers on an accelerated time scale. We are proud to introduce the MIT Climate Policy Center, because we know climate change is an urgent problem we can address if we focus our resources and expertise on it in a systematic way.
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Climate Policy Leadership Team

Christopher Knittel

Christopher Knittel

Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability

Christopher Knittel is the Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to MIT Sloan, Knittel taught at the University of California,…

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Bethany Patten

Bethany Patten

Senior Lecturer, Sustainability; Executive Director, MIT Climate Policy Center

Bethany Patten is the inaugural Executive Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Climate Policy Center–MIT’s “front door” to provide evidence-based climate research for local, state, national, and international policymakers…

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Drew Pic

Drew Story

Policy Director

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Affiliated Faculty

John D. Sterman

John D. Sterman

Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management

John D. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He is also the Director of the MIT System Dynamics Group and the MIT Sloan…

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Catherine Wolfram

Catherine Wolfram

William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy

Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of…

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