BIOGRAPHY
Lucas Chancel is an economist, with expertise in inequality and in environmental policy. Download CV.
POSITIONS
Previous positions
Invited researcher at UN-Habitat (Nairobi), Consultant at The Energy and Resource Institute (New Delhi), ADEME (Paris) and EIFER (Karlsruhe)
Current positions
-
Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab and of WID.world.
-
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.
-
Lecturer at Sciences Po.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Global income (and CO2) dynamics
OTHER ACTIVITIES
EDUCATION
2018
PhD in Economics (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales | PSL Research University) (Prize for the Best PhD Thesis of Paris Sciences Lettres University: Special Mention of the Jury)
2008-2011
MSc in economics and public policy, Sciences Po Paris, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSAE
MSc in Sustainable Energy, Imperial College, London
MSc 1 in European Political Economy, Sciences Po, London School of Economics
Actor within theatre troupe "Commun Souffle" (2015-2018) and "Winston" (2018-2020)
Cooperator and member of La Louve
Speaker at Champ Libre (workshops with inmates, 2016)
Administrator of Cochenko association (2013-2015)
Co-founder of "Lighting a Billion Lives - France" association (2010)
Co-founder of "Pavés" association (2007)
2005-2008
Bachelor in social sciences, Sciences Po Paris & Bachelor in Physics applied to environmental sciences, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Exchange programme (Economics & environmental science), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi