Natural Resources
Martin Sandbu, The Wharton School
Martin Sandbu is a lecturer in Business Ethics. He has a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford University. Sandbu pursues two main strands of research. The first concerns questions at the intersection between economics and philosophy. He is currently working on collective responsibility, with applications to the responsibility of stockholders for the actions of the corporations they own. His second strand of research is the political economy of development, with particular attention to the role of natural resource wealth in the development process.
In addition to academic research, Sandbu has advised developing-country governments and NGOs on how to manage the
challenges that natural resource rents pose to sound economic policy, good governance, and transparency. He is part of the "Oil Team" of the
advisory project to Sao Tome and Principe at the Center for Globalization and Economic Development, Columbia University Earth
Institute.