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Student Profiles
Students in SIPA's Sustainable Development PhD program come from a wide variety of backgrounds and are working on a diverse set of research topics. Select profiles below provide an idea of the breadth of interests reflected in the program.
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Jesse Antilla-Hughes Research Interests: climate change, risk, behavioral economics, disasters, finance Personal Web Site: www.columbia.edu/~jka2110/ |
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Xiaojia Bao Research Interests: economic growth, environment pollution, poverty, and water resources Personal Web Site: www.columbia.edu/~xb2112/ |
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Johannes Castner Research Interests: resource scarcity and resource distribution, positivist questions about poverty and inequality |
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Denyse S. Dookie Research Interests: climate change, adaptation, policy, poverty, livelihoods, vulnerability, small island states |
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Marion Dumas Research Interests: science and practice of ecological restoration and its economic + social implications, sustainable management of biogeochemical cycles, phosphorus scarcity and food security, ecosystem responses to hydrological perturbations, transdisciplinary case studies |
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Mukul Ram Fishman Research Interests: groundwater, India, hyperbolic discounting, heterogeneous discounting |
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Solomon Hsiang Research Interests: climate, economics, risk, applied statistics Personal Web Site: www.columbia.edu/~smh2137 |
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Amir Jina Research Interests: climate change adaptation, resilience, disaster risk reduction, community development |
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Geoffrey Johnston Research Interests: malaria, poverty eradication, behavioral economics, mathematical modeling Personal Web Site: www.columbia.edu/~glj2108 |
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Booyuel Kim Research Interests: poverty reduction, microfinance, social business enterprise |
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Geoffrey McCarney Research Interests: environmental & resource economics, ecosystem services, climate, risk Personal Web Site: www.columbia.edu/~grm2119/ |
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Kyle Meng Research Interests: environmental, applied, and public economics; climate uncertainty and policy Personal Web Site: www.columbia.edu/~km2455 |
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Nicole Ngo Research Interests: urban air pollution, modeling Personal Web Site: www.columbia.edu/~nsn2106/ |
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Mark Orrs Research Interests: Africa, agriculture, education, child mortality Personal Web Site: www.columbia.edu/~mso2108 |
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Aly Sanoh Research Interests: sustainability, infrastructure, decentralization Personal Web Site: www.columbia.edu/~ as3047/ |
| Tse-Ling Teh Research Interests: risk analysis, natural disasters, public policy |
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Anna Tompsett Research Interests: water, infrastructure, complementarily, rural development |
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Nan Zhong Research Interests: environmental and resource economics |
| Post-MPhil | |
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Saifddean Ammous |
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Jessica Barnes Personal Web Site: www.columbia.edu/~jeb2118/ |
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Mo Ji |
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Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy Research Interests: environmental economics, applications of statistical methods to Climate Issues, applied econometrics |
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Gordon McCord Research Interests: geography, health, poverty traps, GIS, spatial econometrics Personal Web Site: www.earth.columbia.edu/people/gmccord |
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Anisa Khadem Nwachuku Research Interests: health, disparities, vulnerability, materialism, capabilities Personal Web Site: www.columbia.edu/~ akc2114 |
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Jose Carlos Orihuela Research Interests: green governance, environmental conflict, resource curse, institutional economics |
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Lily Parshall Research Interests: urban, energy, climate, adaptation, inventories Personal Web Site: www.columbia.edu/~llp15 |
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Marta Vicarelli Research Interests: climate variability and change, applied microeconomics, design of risk-reducing mechanisms |
| Alumni | |
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Margaret MacLeod |
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Daiju Narita |