Gernot Wagner

Visiting Scholar

2021-2022

Gernot Wagner is a climate economist. His research, writing, and teaching focus on climate risks and climate policy. He teaches climate economics and policy at NYU, where he is a clinical associate professor at the Department of Environmental Studies and associated clinical professor at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service.

Prior to joining NYU, Wagner was the founding executive director of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, a research associate at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy. Before Harvard, Wagner served as economist at the Environmental Defense Fund. He has taught at Columbia, Harvard, and NYU, and has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is on the board of CarbonPlan.org.

Wagner holds a joint bachelor’s magna cum laude with highest honors in environmental science, public policy, and economics, and a master’s and Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard, as well as a master’s in economics from Stanford.