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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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Francis Annan Research Interests: environmental and public economics; climate change, risk and energy economics; applied econometrics |
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Belinda Archibong Research Interests: renewable energy investment, energy planning, resource management, climate and African economic development |
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Prabhat Barnwal Research Interests: environment and development, agriculture, |
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Aaron Baum Research Interests: low-resource health systems, integration of microfinance and health care, implementation-oriented research on community health worker subsystems, and rural markets. |
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Kayleigh Campbell |
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Johannes Castner Research Interests: Belief systems as Mathematical objects: Sustainable Development as development of a better Social Cognition through deliberation and an understanding of deliberative processes |
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Anthony D’Agostino |
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Denyse S. Dookie Research Interests: climate change, adaptation, policy, poverty, livelihoods, vulnerability, small island states |
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Eugenie Dugoua Research Interests: the Economics and Politics of Energy (including nuclear), natural resources, risks, conflicts, geopolitics. |
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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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Pablo Egaña del Sol |
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Eyal Frank Research Interests: Thermoeconomics, barriers and thresholds in the adoption of new energy generating and efficiency improving technologies, the dynamics between economic, environmental, and demographic systems with a focus on age structure, and micro-macro paradoxes. |
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Habtamu Fuje Research Interests: development microeconomics, poverty-agriculture nexus and international trade |
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Amir Jina Research Interests: climate change adaptation, resilience, disaster risk reduction, community development |
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Jaehyun Jung Research Interests: poverty alleviation, entrepreneurship, microfinance, health and agriculture. |
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Booyuel Kim Research Interests: HIV/AIDS prevention, MCH(Mother-Child Health), Millennium Villages Project, Microfinance & Social Enterprise |
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Stephanie Lackner Research Interests: natural and social disasters and their effect on the economy and development |
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Kimberly Lai |
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Ruinan Liu Research Interests: renewable energy finance, energy efficiency, air quality & health in China |
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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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Steffen Merte Research Interests: environmental economics and policy, behavioral economics, climate change |
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James Rising Research Interests: fisheries management, system modeling, complexity, alternative economics, social change innovation, ecocentric world changing |
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Semee Yoon Research Interests: environmental & development economics, poverty alleviation and climate change adaption |
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Xiaojie Zhang Research Interests: agriculture and community-based development in Africa |
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Nan Zhong Research Interests: environmental and resource economics |
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Xiaojia Bao Research Interests: economic growth, environment pollution, poverty, and water resources |
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Mo Ji Research Interests: economic development, economic growth, and the economies of East Asia, including China |
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Kyle Meng Research Interests: environmental economics, political economy, climate physics, climate change policy, impacts, and uncertainty |
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Nicole Ngo Research Interests: urban air pollution, modeling, health economics, environment and development, air pollution, and urbanization |
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Mark Orrs Research Interests: Africa, education, health, business development |
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Tse-Ling Teh Research Interests: risk analysis, natural disasters, public policy |
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Anna Tompsett Research Interests: water, infrastructure, complementarily, rural development |
| Alumni | |
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Saifedean Ammous Research Interests: environmental economics and development economics; monetary economics, international economics, macroeconomics |
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Jesse Anttila-Hughes Research Interests: climate change, risk, behavioral economics, disasters, finance |
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Jessica Barnes Research Interests: water in the Middle East; political ecology, resource management, international development |
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Ram Mukul Fishman Research Interests: groundwater, India, hyperbolic discounting, heterogeneous discounting |
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Solomon Hsiang Research Interests: Primary Field(s): Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy Secondary Field(s): Applied Econometrics, Climate Physics |
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Geoff Chi-Johnston Research Interests: malaria, poverty eradication, behavioral economics, mathematical modeling |
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Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy Research Interests: environmental economics, applications of statistical methods to Climate Issues, applied econometrics |
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Margaret MacLeod |
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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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Daiju Narita |
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Anisa Khadem Nwachuku Research Interests: health, disparities, vulnerability, materialism, capabilities |
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Jose Carlos Orihuela Research Interests*: comparative political economy of development, institutional change, resource and environmental governance |
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Lily Parshall Research Interests: Energy planning; geography, urban energy, urban climate |
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Aly Sanoh Research Interests: sustainability, infrastructure, decentralization |
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Marta Vicarelli Research Interests: climate variability and change, applied microeconomics, design of risk-reducing mechanisms |
