Scott Barrett

Scott Barrett is a Columbia University economist specializing in climate change and international cooperation. He has long-standing ties with European institutions: he serves on the advisory board of IDDRI at Sciences Po, taught a PhD course at Paris 1 in 2015 and has participated in the Alliance Summer School. As an Alliance visiting professor at École polytechnique during his 2016-17 sabbatical, he worked on a new book on climate change, which he describes as the biggest collective action problem in human history.