Gernot Wagner

Gernot Wagner
Gernot Wagner in January 2021
Born1980
Austria
NationalityAustrian & American
SpouseDr. Siripanth Nippita (m. 2002)
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University
Stanford University
Doctoral advisorRobert N. Stavins
InfluencesNat Keohane
Martin Weitzman
Richard Zeckhauser
Academic work
Disciplineclimate economics
School or traditionenvironmental economics
InstitutionsColumbia Business School
AwardsTop 15 Financial Times-McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015; Austrian of the Year 2022
Website

Gernot Wagner (1980 in Austria) is an Austrian climate economist at Columbia Business School. He holds an AB and a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University, as well as an MA in economics from Stanford University. A founding co-director of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program (2017–2019) he joined the faculty of New York University in 2019, moving to Columbia University in 2022. Wagner writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate, and is the co-author, with Martin L. Weitzman, of Climate Shock, a Top 15 Financial Times-McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015. He won the "Austrian of the Year" award in 2022, awarded by Austrian daily Die Presse.