Eban Goodstein

Eban Goodstein (born 1960) is an economist, author, and public educator who directs both the Center for Environmental Policy and the MBA in Sustainability at Bard College. He is known for organizing national educational initiatives on climate change, which have engaged thousands of schools and universities, civic institutions, faith groups, and community organizations in solutions-driven dialogue. He is the author of three books and numerous journal articles. He and his wife, Chungin Chung Goodstein, live in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. They have three daughters.

Goodstein was born and grew up in Sewanee, Tennessee. His parents were affiliated with the Highlander Research and Education Center, a networking and skills-training institute that facilitates grassroots organizing for issues of social and environmental justice throughout Appalachia and the South. In partnership with several other families, his parents helped drive the desegregation of the local Franklin County public school system in 1962, (one of 17 school districts in Tennessee still under court orders to unify their desegregated student bodies).

Goodstein received his B.A. from Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Goodstein was a Professor of Economics at Skidmore College and Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. In 2009 he relocated to Bard College to Direct the Center for Environmental Policy. His research centers on environmental and natural resource economics, the relationship between jobs and environmental policy, and climate economics. At Bard CEP, Goodstein launched one of the nation’s first MS in Climate Science and Policy degree offerings. In 2012, with the support of Hunter Lovins, Goodstein also founded Bard’s MBA in Sustainability —one of a handful of programs globally that fully integrates sustainability into a core graduate business curriculum.

Goodstein was a writer-in-residence at the Mesa Refuge Writers' Retreat, is on the steering committee of Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3), and the Editorial Board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record. He also serves on the Board of the Follett Corporation.

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