Graciela Chichilnisky
Graciela Chichilnisky (* 1944 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine - American mathematician and economist . She excelled in particular in the field of environmental economics .
Career, research and teaching
After the coup led by Juan Carlos Onganía in 1966, Chichilnisky left Argentina with her family and fled to the United States. There she took a Ph.D. Studied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to the University of California, Berkeley . There she completed her studies in 1970 under the supervision of Jerrold Marsden in 1970. She then took up a degree in economics and graduated from the university in 1976 under the later Nobel laureate in economics, Gérard Debreu .
After completing her studies, Chichilnisky moved to Harvard University , where she was initially a postdoc and from 1977 a lecturer . The following year she moved to Columbia University as an associate professor , and in 1979 she was appointed full professor there. In the following years she visited various international universities, for example in 1980/81 she took over the Keynes Chair for one year at the University of Essex , and in the mid-1980s she was at the University of Minnesota and the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane , and later taught at the University of Siena , Deakin University and Nankai University, among others . Between 1995 and 2008 she was a UNESCO Professor of Mathematics and Economics.
Chichilnisky's main focus is on environmental economics, where she excelled in emissions trading , foreign trade and welfare economics , where she published in particular on social choice theory . She was decisively involved in the formulation of emissions trading between countries in the Kyoto Protocol and was the main author of the status reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize . The term “ sustainable development ” is partly attributed to them.
In 2008, a lawsuit with Columbia University in which Chichilnisky accused her employer of having paid her less salary than her male counterparts was settled out of court. She was reportedly paid $ 200,000 in compensation. She has been a US citizen since 1991 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ theguardian.com: "Graciela Chichilnisky's innovation: carbon capturing" (accessed October 2, 2018)
- ↑ nysun.com: "Columbia, Prof. Reach Second Gender Dispute Settlement" (accessed October 2, 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chichilnisky, Graciela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist of Argentinian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |