BIOGRAPHY
Lucas Chancel is an economist, with expertise in inequality and in environmental policy.
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
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Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab and of WID.world.
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Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.
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Lecturer at Sciences Po.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Global income (and CO2) dynamics
New indicators of progress
Models of growth and prosperity
Environmental policy and equity
Drivers of individual pollution levels
OTHER ACTIVITIES
EDUCATION
2018
PhD in Economics (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales | PSL Research University)
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" and the art collective "Le Mème Ensemble"
Cooperator and member of La Louve
Speaker at Champ Libre (workshops in prison, 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