David Anthoff is an environmental economist who studies climate change and environmental policy. He co-develops the integrated assessment models GIVE and FUND that are widely used in academic research and in policy analysis. His research has appeared in Nature, Science, The American Economic Review, Nature Climate Change, the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and other academic journals. For more than a decade the US EPA has used his work for their official Social Cost of Carbon estimate. He has also advised numerous other organizations, including the German Bundesumweltamt, The Canadian National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy and the Stern Review, on the economics of climate change.


He is an associate professor in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, a senior fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and a University Fellow at Resources for the Future. Previously he was an assistant professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment of the University of Michigan, a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley and a postdoc at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Ireland. He also was a visiting research fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.


He holds a PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in economics from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, a MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford (UK) and a M.Phil. in philosophy, logic and philosophy of science from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich, Germany).


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