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| David G. Victor |
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Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development; Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Senior Fellow; Stanford Professor of Law; Woods Institute Senior Fellow by courtesy
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dgvictor@stanford.edu
(650) 724-1712 (phone)
(650) 724-1717 (fax)
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Stanford University
Encina Hall E415
Stanford, CA 94305-6055 |
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| English |
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climate change policy; energy policy; natural gas; electric power market reform; rural energy development; genetically modified foods/plants and related trade policy |
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David Victor is a professor of law; an FSI senior fellow; and director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development. The program, established in September 2001 with core funding from the Electric Power Research Institute and BP, focuses on the economic and environmental consequences of energy consumption. Its initial studies examine the development of the North American and global natural gas markets, reform of electric power markets, and other topics. Much of the program's research examines how the availability of modern energy services, such as electricity, can affect the process of economic growth in the world's poorest regions.
Previously, Victor directed the Science and Technology program at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where he studied the sources of technological innovation and the impact of innovation on economic growth. His research has also examined global warming policy, forest protection, and genetically modified foods. Before joining the Council on Foreign Relations, Victor directed a three-year multinational research project on the implementation of international environmental treaties at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. His research at the institute examined how the international system monitors, verifies and enforces compliance with environmental treaties.
His publications include The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Princeton University Press, April 2001), Technological Innovation and Economic Performance (Princeton University Press, January 2002), and an edited book of case studies on the implementation of international environmental agreements (MIT Press, 1998). He has written more than 70 essays and articles in scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers, including Climatic Change, Foreign Affairs, the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, the Los Angeles Times, Nature, the New York Times, Scientific American, and The Washington Post. He received a BA in history and science from Harvard University and a PhD in political science (international relations) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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