The Economics of Climate Change, Christian Gollier – HEC Climate Days

For for the launch of the first edition of the HEC Climate Days on May 2022, we were very honored to welcome Christian Gollier, Professor and Executive Director of Toulouse School of Economics.

Christian Gollier’s research spans the fields of economics of uncertainty, environmental economics, finance , insurance, and cost-benefit analysis, with a particular interest in long-term sustainable effects. He founded the Toulouse School of Economics with Jean Tirole in 2007 and has been its director since 2009 (with a hiatus in 2015-2016). He has published more than a hundred articles in international scientific journals. He has also published 10 books on risk including “The Economics of Risk and Time” (MIT Press), which won the “Paul A. Samuelson Award (2001). In 2012, he published a book entitled “Pricing the Planet’s Future” at Princeton University Press, which he presented at the “6th Arrow Lecture” at Columbia University. Christian Gollier is one of the authors of the 4th and 5th reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007 and 2013). In addition, he regularly advises several governments on their public investment evaluation policies. He is president of EAERE, the European Association of Environmental Economists. His recent book for the general public, “Le Climat après la fin du mois” (PUF 2019), deals with the importance of taking action in the face of climate change and has been a great success in France.

Know more about the Climate Days
https://www.hec.edu/en/faculty-research/centers/society-organizations-institute/climate-and-earth/hec-climate-days

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