Education & Curriculum Vitae
B.A., Swarthmore College
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.P.P.M., Yale School of Management
About
Mr. Lifset’s research and teaching focus on the growing field of industrial ecology, the study of the environmental consequences of production and consumption. He is a Research Scholar, Resident Fellow in Industrial Ecology and founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, an international peer-reviewed biomonthly headquartered at the Center for Industrial Ecology at the Yale School of of the Environment and owned by Yale University. In addition, he serves on the UN’s International Resource Panel. His research focuses on extended producer responsibility (EPR); material and resource efficiency and the circular economy; and the environmental impacts of the digital economy.