Ken Bagstad

Ken Bagstad is a Senior Fellow at the Data Foundation's Climate Data Collaborative. He has led efforts in the U.S. and globally to design and implement standard practices for natural capital accounting and environmental-economic statistics, putting the economic value provided by nature on balance sheets for governments and businesses. His career includes 14 years at the U.S. Geological Survey, where he coordinated efforts spanning 27 Federal agencies and over 100 technical staff to develop and report on the diverse contributions of ecosystems and natural resources to the U.S. economy. 

Bagstad has served as a senior technical advisor for international organizations including the World Bank and the United Nations. His work also focuses on semantic interoperability for environmental and economic data and models, which offer improved transparency, replicability, and timeliness for computational workflows, in particular through a long-standing collaboration on the Artificial Intelligence for Environment and Sustainability (ARIES) Project. He holds a Ph.D. in natural resources and ecological economics from the University of Vermont.