Bio
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Gernot Wagner is a climate economic at Columbia Business School and author of six books, including Climate Shock and, most recently, Geoengineering: the Gamble.
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Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School and faculty director of its Climate Knowledge Initiative. He has written six books, including Climate Shock and, most recently, Geoengineering: the Gamble. Gernot’s research, writing, and teaching focus on climate risks, technologies, and policy. He is a research fellow at CEPR, faculty fellow at CESifo, board member of CarbonPlan, Project Syndicate columnist, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere. Gernot holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard, an M.A. in Economics from Stanford.
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Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School and faculty director of its Climate Knowledge Initiative. He has written six books, including Climate Shock and, most recently, Geoengineering: the Gamble. Gernot’s research, writing, and teaching focus on climate risks, technologies, and policy.
Prior to joining Columbia as a senior lecturer, he taught at NYU and Harvard. He was the founding executive director of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program, and served as economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, most recently as lead senior economist and member of its Leadership Council. Before EDF, Gernot worked for the Boston Consulting Group and wrote leaders for the Financial Times as a Peter Martin fellow.
He is a research fellow at CEPR, faculty fellow at CESifo, board member of CarbonPlan, Project Syndicate columnist, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere.
Gernot holds a Ph.D. and master’s in Political Economy and Government from Harvard, a master’s in Economics from Stanford, and joint bachelor’s magna cum laude with highest honors in environmental science, public policy, and economics from Harvard.
Personal
Born and raised in Amstetten, Austria, Gernot graduated from high school in his hometown before moving to the U.S. for college. He was Austrian of the Year 2022, a distinction never bestowed upon either Arnold Schwarzenegger nor Christoph Waltz.
Gernot lives in New York City with his gynecologist spouse, Siri Nippita, and their two teenage children in a fully electric, 750-square-foot loft. Gernot serves as the coop board president of their building, which has also since cut its gas line.
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