Lucas Chancel (born in 1987 in
Grenoble) is a French
economist. He is Codirector and Senior economist at the World Inequality Lab of the
Paris School of Economics
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and teaches at
Sciences Po
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, founder = Émile Boutmy
, a ...
. He is also Codirector of the World Inequality Database and Research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations. He works on
global inequality
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, European political economy and
Sustainable development
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. He authored and co-authored several books on these topics.
Career
Lucas Chancel pursued his undergraduate studies in social sciences at
Sciences Po
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, mottoeng = Roots of the Future
, type = Public university, Public research university''Grande école''
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, founder = Émile Boutmy
, a ...
as well as
Pierre et Marie Curie University
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in Paris, where he obtained a Bachelor in Physics and applied to earth sciences. He earned an M.Sc. in Economics and public policy from the
Ecole Polytechnique,
ENSAE and
Sciences Po
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, mottoeng = Roots of the Future
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, founder = Émile Boutmy
, a ...
and pursues his scientific training at
Imperial College London where he obtained an M.Sc. in engineering specialized in renewable energy. He earns his
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in
economics from the
School for Advances Studies in the Social Sciences and
Paris Sciences Lettres University in 2018. He writes his dissertation entitled "''Essays on global income and pollution inequality''" under the supervision of
Thomas Piketty and obtains the special mention of the Jury at the Best PhD Thesis prize of Paris Sciences Lettres University. He also studied at the
London School of Economics and at
Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
In 2011, he joins the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations and starts to teach at
Sciences Po
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, mottoeng = Roots of the Future
, type = Public university, Public research university''Grande école''
, established =
, founder = Émile Boutmy
, a ...
where he currently teaches a Master-level course entitled ''Global inequality and sustainability''. He joins the World Inequality Lab at the
Paris School of Economics
The Paris School of Economics (PSE; French: ''École d'économie de Paris'') is a French research institute in the field of economics. It offers MPhil, MSc, and PhD level programmes in various fields of theoretical and applied economics, in ...
in 2015. He gives conferences on global inequality and sustainability including at the
United Nations Headquarters in New York.
He collaborates with modern artists, includin
Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen on arts and social science projects related to inequality or the economy.
Lucas Chancel is an op-ed contributor to French newspapers
Le Monde and
Libération
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and intervenes in the international media to discuss economic developments and present his research findings.
On the occasion of the Paris Climate Conference, he defends a global progressive tax on carbon emissions. In 2017, he publishes is first book in French "Insoutenables inégalités: pour une justice sociale et environnementale", a "''reflexion on the complex articulation of the socio-economic sphere and environmental sphere''" according to French journal
Le Monde. The book is translated in English by Harvard University Press in 2020 under the title "Unsustainable Inequality: Social justice and the environment". In 2018, he serves as general coordinator of the
World Inequality Report
World Inequality Report is a report by the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics that provides estimates of global income and wealth inequality based on the most recent findings compiled by the World Inequality Database (WID). WID, ...
, published in a dozen languages and widely discussed in the global media. In 2019, he co-drafts, along with
Thomas Piketty and other intellectuals, the Treaty for the Democratization of Europe. He is lead researcher of a chapter of
Human Development Report
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The first HDR was launched in 1990 by the Pakistani economist ...
2019 on global inequality and poverty. In 2020, il argues in favor of debt mutualization between France, Italy and Spain in the context of the Coronavirus crisis.
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1987 births
French economists
Global issues
Living people
Writers from Paris