Nik Sawe

Environmental Policy Analyst, Stanford Lecturer & Environmental Behavioral Economist

Nik Sawe is a Policy Analyst in the Industry Program at Energy Innovation Policy and Technology LLC, focusing on eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector.1 He joined this role in July 2023.3

Sawe has an extensive background in environmental research and academia:

Education and Research

He holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources and a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University.1 3
Sawe founded the Environmental Decision-Making and Neuroscience Group at Stanford in 2010.3
His research adapts neuroeconomics to environmental applications, studying how people make environmental decisions using brain imaging, behavioral economics experiments, and econometrics.1 2

Academic Career

He has been a Lecturer at Stanford University's Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources since September 2016.3
Sawe teaches courses on environmental decision-making, risk perception, psychology of science communication, and environmental governance.3

Previous Experience

Prior to his current role, he worked as a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University.1
He has also worked as a Medical and Technical Writer at ArthroCare Corporation and as a Marketing and Web Content Writer at Cooliris.3

Personal Interests and Achievements

Sawe published a fiction novel about wolves during high school.1
He has developed a technique to transform ecological data into music, allowing him to represent the impact of climate change on Alaskan forests through sound.1
Despite having a brittle bone disability, Sawe's love for nature has been a driving force in his career.2

Nik Sawe brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to his work, combining neuroscience, environmental science, and behavioral economics to address complex environmental challenges.