#  Gernot Wagner 

Ph.D. Political Economy and Government 2007

Clinical Associate Professor at New York University

 

 

 



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 [Gernot Wagner](http://gwagner.com/) is a clinical associate professor at New York University’s Department of Environmental Studies and associated clinical professor at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. He writes the [Risky Climate column](https://gwagner.com/tag/risky-climate/) for *Bloomberg Green*.

 Prior to joining NYU, Gernot was the founding executive director of [Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program](https://geoengineering.environment.harvard.edu/people/gernot-wagner) (2016 – 2019), a research associate at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard.

 He wrote [*Climate Shock*](http://gwagner.com/books/climate-shock/), joint with Harvard’s Martin Weitzman and published by Princeton University Press (2015, paperback 2016), among others, a Top 15 *Financial Times* McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015, and Austria’s Natural Science Book of the Year 2017; and [*But will the planet notice?*](http://gwagner.com/books/but-will-the-planet-notice/), published by Hill & Wang/Farrar Strauss & Giroux (2011, paperback 2012).

 Prior to Harvard, Gernot served as economist at the Environment Defense Fund (2008 – 2016), most recently as lead senior economist (2014 – 2016) and member of its Leadership Council (2015 – 2016). He also taught energy economics as adjunct associate professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (2011 – 2015).

 He 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.

 Gernot lives in New York, NY, with his wife, [Siripanth Nippita](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nippita), a gynecologist and the director of the Division of Family Planning at New York University, and their two young children.



 

 

 





 

 

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