Gernot Wagner

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Gernot Wagner (* 1980 in Amstetten ) is an Austro- American economist and author . Since 2019 he has been teaching and researching at New York University , before that at Harvard University . He is co-author with Martin L. Weitzman from Klimaschock , Science Book of the Year 2017. The English original was named one of the 15 best business books of 2015 by the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company .

Life

After graduating from high school in Amstetten , Lower Austria, in 1998 , he studied at Harvard University and Stanford University . He then wrote for the Financial Times in London . After returning to the US, he worked as an economist and then lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund in New York City , with a team of economists including Thomas Sterner, Frank Convery, Nathaniel Keohane. Wagner was part of the 6-person team that wrote the World Bank 's emissions trading manual .

From 2011 to 2016 he taught at Columbia University in New York and writes regularly for English and international media. From 2016 to 2019 he taught and researched at Harvard University , among other things as a co-founder of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program, which he led with David Keith until 2019. Most recently, he deals with geoengineering , which is also a topic of climate shock . Since 2017 he has been co-director of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Programs.

Wagner's articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines worldwide including The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Washington Post , Financial Times , The Guardian , Foreign Affairs , European Financial Review, Foreign Policy , Forbes , The Atlantic , Grist , WIRED , Project Syndicate , Salon.com , Die Presse , Der Standard , Die Furche (weekly newspaper) , and Wirtschaftsblatt . He appeared in media from BBC , CNBC , Fox Business News, NPR , PBS NewsHour, and Yahoo ! Business News.

Wagner has been married to Siripanth Nippita, a gynecologist at Harvard Medical School , since 2002 . They have two children together: Annan (born 2011) and Sonja Nippita (born 2013).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Curriculum Vitae . Retrieved February 20, 2018.
  2. ^ Andrew Hill: Business Book Award longlist: must-read titles of 2015 . In: Financial Times . ISSN  0307-1766 ( ft.com [accessed July 30, 2016]).
  3. ↑ Amstetten - Gernot Wagner: Combining research with writing. Retrieved July 3, 2016 .
  4. ^ Gernot Wagner Lead Senior Economist . Retrieved December 5, 2015.
  5. ↑ EDF: Our economics experts ( Memento of August 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) edf.org. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
  6. ^ Partnership for Market Readiness, International Carbon Action Partnership: Emissions Trading in Practice . World Bank, Washington, DC 2016.
  7. ↑ Gernot Wagner. Retrieved July 30, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Harvard researchers: "Funding for oil heating is madness". Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
  9. ↑ "It is too late for pessimism" . The press. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
  10. ↑ 31/2016 - Like a meeting of alcoholics - Furche.at. (No longer available online.) In: www.furche.at. Archived from the original on August 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.furche.at
  11. ↑ Is it OK to tinker with the environment to fight climate change? In: The New York Times. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
  12. ^ Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
  13. ^ A b David W. Keith, Gernot Wagner: Fear of solar geoengineering is healthy - but don't distort our research . In: The Guardian . March 29, 2017, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed September 6, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Alois Pumhösel: Solar Geoengineering: Painkillers against global warming . In: The Standard . February 24, 2018 ( derstandard.at [accessed February 26, 2018]).
  15. ^ Gernot Wagner: Going Green but Getting Nowhere . In: The New York Times . September 7, 2011, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed September 6, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman: What Hurricane Sandy the 'Fat Tail' of Climate Change? In: WSJ. November 1, 2012, Retrieved September 6, 2017 (American English).
  17. ^ For young college graduates, the case for economics. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  18. ^ Nathaniel O. Keohane & Gernot Wagner: Judge a carbon market by its cap, not its prices. Financial Times, July 6, 2013, accessed September 6, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Gernot Wagner, David Keith, Gernot Wagner, David Keith: Cop22 After Trump . In: Foreign Affairs . November 21, 2016, ISSN  0015-7120 ( foreignaffairs.com [accessed September 6, 2017]).
  20. ↑ It's not over 'til the fat tail zings . In: Gernot Wagner | Economist and Author . ( gwagner.com [accessed on September 6, 2017]).
  21. ↑ Playing God. In: Foreign Policy. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  22. ^ Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman: Could Climate Change Bring Camels to the Plains of Canada? In: The Atlantic . ( theatlantic.com [accessed September 6, 2017]).
  23. ^ Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman: The planet won't notice you recycle, and your vote doesn't count. March 29, 2015, accessed September 6, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Martin Tauss: “Economy is not waiting for Washington” . Ed .: Die Furche (weekly newspaper) . September 14, 2017 ( gwagner.com [accessed September 17, 2017]).
  25. ^ Elisabeth Postl: Kulturkampf around the delivery room . In: The press . August 22, 2017 ( diepresse.com [accessed February 20, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Amstetten