Matthew E. Kahn

Matthew E. Kahn is a Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the Department of Economics, the Department of Public Policy, and the Anderson School of Business. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining the UCLA faculty, Kahn taught at Columbia and the Fletcher School at Tufts, and also served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Stanford. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Kahn is the author of Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (Brookings Institution, 2006), co-author of Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (Princeton 2009), and Climatopolis, featured in his Rorotoko interview.