Friday, Sept. 26, 8:30-9:45am CT
Location: Blake campus, Dining Commons

The reunion edition of our popular Breakfast at Blake speaker series featured 2025 Outstanding Alumnus Award recipient Jim Stock '74. Q&A followed the presentation. Stock is Harvard University’s vice provost for climate and sustainability and director of the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. He leads a coordinated university-wide strategy to address climate change and bring greater visibility to Harvard’s climate and sustainability work. He was named vice provost in 2021; the Salata Institute was established in 2022.

For nearly 40 years, Stock has taught at Harvard and is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, for which he was also named in 2007. His academic research areas are macroeconomic forecasting, monetary policy, econometric methods and environmental policy. Stock chaired the Harvard economics department from 2006-09. He currently serves on the panel of advisors of the Congressional Budget Office and on the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee. He is a university fellow at Resources for the Future and a nonresident senior fellow of economic studies at the Brookings Institute’s Center on Regulation and Markets. He co-wrote “Introduction to Econometrics,” a leading undergraduate econometrics textbook. Stock is the co-editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and on the editorial board of NBER’s Environment and Energy Economics publication. He was the co-editor of Econometrica from 2009-12 and the managing editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics from 1992-2003. Stock served as a member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers in 2013-14. He won the Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys (CIRET) Isaac Kerstenstzky Scholarly Achievement Award in 2010. He was elevated to a fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.

Stock holds a master's in statistics and a doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He received a bachelor's in physics from Yale University. While at Blake, he was a member of the glee club, won the Yale trophy and the Spirit of the Blake School award. He now resides in Lincoln, Massachusetts.