Geoffrey Heal
Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility,
Columbia Business School 

Geoffrey Heal is the Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility and Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, and Professor of Public and International Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He has served as Vice Dean of the Business School and managed the Executive MBA Program. Heal studied Physics and Economics at Cambridge, where he obtained a First Class Honors degree and a Doctorate. He then taught at Cambridge, Stanford, Yale and Princeton, and held a Fulbright Professorship at the University of Siena. Dr. Heal has acted as Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies and has acted on the editorial boards of many other journals. In the 1970s, he founded a London-based consulting firm, and in the 1980s, he founded a firm providing systems for telecommunications and data processing to the international securities business. He is a member of the Pew Oceans Commission ( www.pewoceans.org ), a Director of the Union of Concerned Scientists (www.ucsusa.org), a Director of the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (www.kva.se ), Chair of the National Academy/National Research Council’s Committee on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services, a member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Dr. Heal has advised the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the United Mineworkers of America, and used to work as Advisor to the Secretary-General of OPEC.