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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 and Financial Times, among others.

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.