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Economics Lecturer, Harvard University, Massachusetts
David is currently an Economics Lecturer at Harvard University. For the past several years, he has been teaching Microeconomics and Macroeconomic analysis at both Wellesley College and Harvard University. Previously, David taught economics for four years at Stanford University. He has received wide recognition for his teaching talent and animated style, and strives to make his courses interesting, important and relevant. David has been teaching in CSF’s courses since 2004.
David says this about CSF: "Any economist worth his salt has but a single goal in mind: harnessing the tools of economic analysis to support improvements in the human condition. CSF’s raison d’être is its belief that sustainable environmental resource use is singularly responsible for the future of that human condition. The CSF training model works brilliantly precisely because it begins with talented, experienced “students” already armed with a demonstrated commitment to environmental awareness. As a scholar, I have the enviable task of helping them fit that last piece of the puzzle – those economic tools that add academic rigor to what is often misguidedly perceived as purely emotional tree-hugging…the “hard head” to accompany the “soft heart.” As an organization, CSF has always impressed me with their unwavering commitment to the importance of economics and markets in saving the planet. I continue to marvel at their resilience in withstanding what one might call a “dual skepticism” of their mission: skepticism from those who doubt that climate change is real AND skepticism from fellow environmentalists who doubt that economic analysis is the way to save our planet. CSF courses boast participant lists that regularly send me straight to Google Maps! But no matter how large or small their countries or their conflicts, students leave CSF courses energized, empowered, and equipped with the proper tools to make their cases back home. We have a term for those groups not afraid to fight multiple headwinds in pursuit of a cause they know in their heads and hearts is right: leadership."
