Robert Hahn

Bob is a distinguished senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon.

Before the pandemic, he was a professor at Oxford and director of economics at the Smith School, where he continues to lead research on carbon market design, low-income energy subsidies, the benefits of ride-sharing, and the impact of regulation on economic growth.

Earlier in his career he served on the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers and was chief economist on the White House drafting team for the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, where he helped design the cap-and-trade system for limiting smokestack sulfur emissions. He has served on the Harvard faculty and held senior appointments at AEI and Brookings, where he co-founded and directed the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, a leading institution in law and economics, regulation, and antitrust.

Bob co-founded The Behavioralist, which applies behavioral economics and evidence-based methods to public-policy questions. He served as a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking and works with senior decision makers to advance evidence-based policy.

He is currently running several economics experiments aimed at improving productivity and promoting growth and sustainability, alongside continuing research on regulation, competition policy, energy and Internet policy, environmental policy, and the benefits of breakthrough innovations.