Nicolas Schneider

Nicolas Schneider earned a PhD from Boston University’s Department of Earth & Environment. Native from France, Nicolas holds a MSc in Development Economics & Applied Econometrics at Paris Sorbonne University (France) and a MSc in Environmental Economics & Climate Change from the London School of Economics & Political Science (UK), with a major in resource extraction modelling, energy economics and environmental policy. Nicolas’ doctoral work involved: (i) large-scale processing of high-resolution time- and spatially downscaled meteorological data and air column-averaged satellite measurements, (ii) coupling the resulting processed data to records of various impact endpoints,  (iii) projecting mid- and end-century climatically driven changes in economic, energy, and agriculture outcomes, by integrating an ensemble of global climate model outputs simulated under the Coupled Model Intercomparison Phase VI (CMIP6), into econometrically-structured estimation equations calibrated via historical responses. Nicolas was also involved in several missions, such as co-chair of the Workshops and Panels Working Group of the BU Science Policy Group, Fellow at the New York City’s Mayor Office of Climate, and Teaching Fellow in the Dept. of General Education at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA).

After graduating from BU, Nicolas took on a role in the private sector doing quantitative modelling of climate change impacts on asset pricing and global equity, empirical projections of climate-shift effect on economic productions and physical assets, among other projects with EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute.

Keywords: Climate economics, Econometric modelling of climatically driven impacts, Mid- and end-century extrapolated projections