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

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) (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