Gus Greenstein is an assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration.

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Gus Greenstein is a political scientist specialising in environmental governance, public administration and policy studies. He received his PhD from Stanford University’s Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources.

Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, he studies policy implementation and institutional change in the context of environmental and climate policy and international development. His work on policy implementation examines how organisational structure and management practices affect the outputs and performance of public agencies, as well as the factors that shape agency structure and management. His work on institutional change explores the drivers of environmental policy change in national and subnational governments and international development organisations.

His completed and ongoing projects address these themes in the context of deforestation control in Brazil, forest regulations in global comparative perspective, World Bank environmental policy, and the allocation of development finance in USAID, among other areas.

He currently serves on the Steering Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research ECPR Standing Group on Environmental Politics. He is a Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project and a former Research Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies SAIS, Johns Hopkins University.

Outside academia, he has consulted for the World Bank Environment Practice, the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group, and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency PBL. He has worked as a Research Analyst for The Brattle Group, an energy economics consulting firm, International Rivers, and Conservation Strategy Fund. As a Thomas Watson Fellow, he spent a year documenting the social and environmental impacts of large hydropower projects across South and Southeast Asia, sub Saharan Africa, and Latin America.

He holds an MPhil in Development Studies from Oxford and a BA in Environmental Studies from Amherst College.

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