Scott Barrett Appointed Vice Dean of SIPA

Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, will serve as SIPA’s Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, after the appointment of Robert C. Lieberman as Interim Dean.

Barrett is a leading scholar on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to disease eradication. His research focuses on how institutions like norms, customary law, resolutions, and treaties can be used to promote international cooperation.

The Vice Dean leads faculty recruitment and development at SIPA. Since arriving at the School in 2009, Barrett has chaired and served on a wide variety of appointment, review, and promotion committees, leading to the recruitment of a remarkable cohort of new faculty.

“I am looking forward to working with Dean Lieberman to ensure that SIPA retains, recruits, and provides a stimulating research environment for the world’s best faculty in international and public affairs,” said Barrett.

Barrett served as Vice Dean during academic year 2010 – 2011, while Lieberman conducted research supported by a fellowship from the American Philosophical Society. In February 2012, Lieberman was named Interim Dean after the appointment of Dean John H. Coatsworth as Provost of Columbia University.

SIPA comprises more than 70 full-time faculty and more than 200 adjunct faculty. They are the foremost scholars, researchers, and practitioners in their fields, coming from the highest levels of academic, government, non-government, nonprofit, and private-sector institutions. All have distinguished themselves in research and leadership and have produced scholarship in a wide variety of subjects, including international relations, democratization, elections, demography, and social policy.

Prior to his work at SIPA, Barrett taught at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he also directed the International Policy program. Before that, he was on the faculty of the London Business School.

Barrett is the author of Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods (Oxford University Press, 2010).