Prof. Kolstad (PhD, Stanford, 1982), a former president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), is an environmental economist, jointly appointed in the Bren School and the Economics Department at UCSB. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Illinois, MIT, Stanford, and the New Economic School (Moscow) and served for two years in the Peace Corps in Ghana. Prof. Kolstad’s research interests are broadly in environmental and natural resource economics. He is interested how information and learning influence the timing, strength and effectiveness of environmental regulation. Much of his applied work is in the area of climate change and energy markets. Prof. Kolstad is a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize), a member of the US National Academy of Sciences committee evaluating the US Climate Change Research Program, and Editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. He is an author of over 100 publications, including his undergraduate text, Environmental Economics, which has been translated into Chinese, Spanish and Japanese.