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GCIC Intellectual | Gernot Wagner

GCIC expert consultants help forward-thinking decision makers and organizations (cities, public agencies, corporations, educational entities and NGOs) to better understand the dynamic climate challenge and provide them with the tools and insights to facilitate solutions. Through research, dialogue, consulting and entrepreneurship.

We focus on: climate, decarbonization, energy, resources, circular economy, sustainable business, green finance, and transformation of cities and regions.

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1. Professional Experience

 

2016-2019  

  • Founding executive director of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program

  • Research associate at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

  • Lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy

 

2008-2016 

  • Economist at the Environmental Defense Fund

 

2014-2016

  • Lead senior economist

 

 

2. Educational Background  

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  • 2007  Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government, Harvard

  • 2006  M.A. in Political Economy and Government, Harvard

  • 2003  M.A. in Economics, Stanford

  • 2002  Joint A.B. magna cum laude with highest honors in Environmental Science and Public Policy, and Economics, Harvard

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3. Basic Introduction

 

Gernot Wagner is a climate economist. His research, writing, and teaching focus on climate risks on the one hand and climate policy on the other.

 

Born and raised in Amstetten, Austria, Gernot graduated from high school in his hometown before moving to the U.S. for college. He holds a joint bachelor’s magna cum laude with highest honors in environmental science, public policy, and economics, and a master’s and Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard, as well as a master’s in economics from Stanford.

 

He teaches climate economics and policy at NYU, where he is a clinical associate professor at the Department of Environmental Studies and associated clinical professor at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service.

 

He writes the Risky Climate column for Bloomberg Green and has written three books: Stadt, Land, Klima  ("City, Country, Climate"), published, in German, by Brandstätter Verlag (2021); Climate Shock, joint with Harvard’s Martin Weitzman and published by Princeton (2015), among others, a Top 15 Financial Times McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015, and Austria’s Natural Science Book of the Year 2017.

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