Biography

Gernot Wagner is an economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, where he focuses on global greenhouse gas emissions reduction pathways and works on developing and applying economically sound climate policy in the United States and internationally.

Prior to EDF, he worked for the Boston Consulting Group and wrote for the editorial board of the Financial Times in London as a Peter Martin Fellow, where he covered economics, energy and the environment.

Gernot graduated from high school in Amstetten, Austria. He holds a joint bachelor's degree in environmental science and public policy, and economics as well as a master's and Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard and a master's in economics from Stanford. Gernot lives in New York, where his wife, Siripanth Nippita, is a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia.