Mailing address
Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
79 JFK St.
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Theodore Panayotou
Director of the Environment and Sustainable Development Program, Center for International Development, John Sawhill Lecturer in Environmental Policy
Contact:
Telephone: (617)-495-1400
Fax: (617)-495-8963
Email: theodore_panayotou@ksg.harvard.edu
Experience
Theodore Panayotou, Director of the Natural Resources and Environment Program, Center for International Development (CID), and John Sawhill Lecturer in Environmental Policy, is on leave from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He specializes in natural resource management and environmental economics as they relate to economic development. Panayotou received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and his M.A. from York University, Toronto. At Harvard he is developing a research program on natural resources and environmental management, and he is lecturing on environmental economics. He has consulted with several international organizations and advised many governments from Southeast Asia to Latin America and from the Middle East to Eastern Europe. He served as a member of the NAS Biodiversity Research Panel, the Pew Scholars Program in Conservation and Environment, the Harvard University Committee on the Environment, and the Board of the Center for Tropical Forest Science of the Smithsonian Institute. Panayotou received the Society for Conservation Biology’s Distinguished Achievement Award (1991). He is the author of Green Markets, Instruments of Change: Motivating and Financing Sustainable Development, co-author of numerous publications, including “Not by Timber Alone: Economics and Ecology for Sustaining Tropical Forests,” and editor of Environment for Growth and Economics of Environment in Transition.
