Gernot Wagner
Austrian-American climate economist at Columbia Business School; co-wrote Climate Shock.
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- Gernot Wagner is an Austrian-American climate economist at Columbia Business School, where he is faculty director of the Climate Knowledge Initiative.
- He co-wrote Climate Shock (2015) with Martin Weitzman and wrote Geoengineering: The Gamble (2021).
- He co-founded Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program.
- He writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate.
Key facts
- Born
- 1980, Austria1
- Now
- Columbia Business School (from 2022); faculty director of its Climate Knowledge Initiative1
- Before
- Environmental Defense Fund, 2008 to 2016 (lead senior economist from 2014); founding co-director of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program, 2017 to 2019; New York University, 2019 to 20221
- Books
- But Will the Planet Notice? (2011); Climate Shock, with Martin L. Weitzman (2015); Geoengineering: The Gamble (2021); six books in all1
- Writes
- A monthly column for Project Syndicate1
- Awards
- Austrian of the Year (Die Presse, 2022); Climate Shock was a Financial Times-McKinsey top 15 business book of 20151
- Education
- AB and PhD in political economy and government, Harvard; MA in economics, Stanford1
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