Gus Greenstein

I'm a doctoral candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University, specializing in Public Management and Environmental Governance. Using a range of qualitative and quantitative methods, I aim to identify tractable sources of organizational (in)effectiveness in public agencies in developing countries and international development organizations. ​ My current research focuses on the relationship between organizational structure and performance in a Brazilian federal environmental agency, constraints on personnel allocation in the same, and shifts in the labor market for international aid workers. Recent projects have focused on the effects of personnel decentralization and the politics of social-environmental safeguards policymaking in the World Bank.

Prior to doctoral studies, I earned an MPhil in Development Studies at Oxford and a BA in environmental studies from Amherst College.

Outside of academia, I’ve worked as a consultant for the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group, a research analyst for The Brattle Group (an energy economics consulting firm), International Rivers, and Conservation Strategy Fund. As a Thomas Watson Fellow, I spent a year documenting the social-environmental impacts of large hydropower projects across South/Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.

Skills

• Community Outreach
• Research
• Environmental Awareness

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Stanford University (2018 — 2023)
• Master’s Degree University of Oxford (2016 — 2018)
• B.A. Amherst College (2010 — 2014)

Companies

• Affiliate Researcher, Department of Political Science Universidade de Brasília (2020)
• Consultant, Independent Evaluation Group The World Bank (2019)
• PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources (EIPER) Stanford University (2018)
• Visiting Researcher Center for Policy Research (2019 — 2019)
• Founding Editor-in-Chief, Oxford Urbanists Magazine Oxford Urbanists (2017 — 2019)
• Researcher Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (2018 — 2019)
• Research Assistant to Professor Tom Hale Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (2017 — 2018)
• Research Assistant to Dr. Atif Ansar Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (2017 — 2018)
• Research Analyst The Brattle Group (2015 — 2016)

Teaching

• Freeman Spogli Institute/School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
  INTPOL 275/ENVRES 224: International Environmental Governance (Fall 2021)
  Fully designed and co-teaching the course with Gemma Smith.

• Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University
  INTPOL 307: Policy Problem Solving in the Real World (Spring 2021)
  Teaching assistant for Francis Fukuyama.

• Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
  SA.400.821: International Development Proseminar (Fall 2020)
  Teaching assistant for Dan Honig.