Antonio M. Bento is a Professor at the Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics at the University of Southern California.
He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Fellow at the Schwarzenegger Institute for
State and Global Policy.
Previously, he was a faculty member of the University of California, Santa Barbara (2000-2004), the University of Maryland
(2004-2007), and Cornell University (2007-2015). He was also visiting professor at Stanford University.
He is a regular consultant to the World Bank,
the InterAmerican Development Bank, and the OECD.
An applied microeconomist, Professor Bento specializes in environmental, energy, urban, and
public economics. His research explores the design of climate change policies, energy transition, urban environmental challenges, and the
distributional impacts of environmental regulations. His work has been published in leading journals including Science, the American Economic
Review, the Journal of Political Economy (Micro), the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Nature
Sustainability, Nature Communications, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and the Journal of Urban Economics.
Professor
Bento contributed to the New York State and California Climate Change Action Plans, the United Nations Scientific Committee on Problems of the
Environment (SCOPE) Assessment Report on Biofuels, served as a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Fifth Assessment Report, and served as lead author to the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). He has also testified before Congressional
Committees of the United States and California Government. Professor Bento holds a BA in Economics from the Nova School of Business and
Economics (Portugal) and a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland.