Focus areas: Environmental economics, infant health, public policy, China
Douglas Almond is Professor of International & Public Affairs (SIPA) and Economics at Columbia University in New York, and co-directs the Environment and Energy Concentration at SIPA. Links to his current research projects are available here.
Almond served as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration and studied health effects of pollution in China as a Fulbright scholar. He is a visiting professor at Uppsala University in Sweden (founded in 1477) and serves as a consultant for the Asian Development Bank.
Almond received his BA in Economics from Carleton College in Minnesota and his PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where he is currently a research associate in the Children's and Environment and Energy Economics Programs.
Almond served as Keren Yarhi-Milo's Vice-Dean 2022-2023 and received the outstanding adviser award in Columbia's Sustainable Development PhD Program in 2020. Since 2017, Almond et al. have generated over 65 megawatt hours of solar electricity and are a net supplier to Central Hudson Energy, Inc.
