Gernot Wagner serves as at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Teaches as adjunct associate professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Wrote , joint with Harvard’s Martin Weitzman and published by Princeton University Press (2015), and , published by Hill & Wang/Farrar Strauss & Giroux (2011).
Served on the editorial board of the Financial Times as a Peter Martin Fellow, where he covered economics, energy, and the environment.
Holds a joint bachelor’s magna cum laude with highest honors in environmental science, public policy, and economics, and a master’s and Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard, as well as a master’s in economics from Stanford.
Is a research associate at the Harvard Kennedy School and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lives in Cambridge, MA, with his wife, , a gynecologist at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and their two children, Annan and Sonja.