Robert Eric Barde

Bob Barde (b. 1947 in Yokosuka, Japan) is Deputy Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as Manager of the Experimental Social Sciences Laboratory (aka Xlab) and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Berkeley Population Center. He has over twenty years of experience as a research administrator.

As a scholar, Barde is co-author (with Susan Carter and Richard Sutch) of the "International Migration" chapter in the new Historical Statistics of the United States, From Earliest Times to the Present, Millennial Edition (Cambridge, 2006). He has written on immigration and public health for the Journal of the History of Medicine, the Journal of American History, and the Journal of American Ethnic History, and on Asian immigration for Social Science History and for Prologue, the quarterly publication of the National Archives and Records Administration. His book, Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island, was published by Praeger/Greenwood in March 2008.

Prior to working at UC Berkeley, Barde was Educational Supervisor for The Africa File documentary series by TVOntario (Toronto) and was a founding partner of The Best of Africa art gallery (also in Toronto). He is a black belt in shoto-kan style karate and a member of the South End Rowing Club in San Francisco.