Randy Bluffstone

Randy Bluffstone

Randy Bluffstone is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Economics and the Environment at Portland State University. His research and teaching interests focus on environmental and resource economics, including climate change, energy, pollution control and deforestation in low-income countries. Professor Bluffstone is associate editor of the journal Forest Economics, a research associate of the Environment for Development (EfD) Initiative and co-coordinates the EfD Forest Collaborative. In 2017-2018 Bluffstone was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Nepal. Prior to coming to Portland State, he taught at the University of Redlands and until September 1999 was deputy director of the International Environment Program at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) at Harvard University. Randy received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston University in 1993 and from 1983 to 1985 was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal.