19 Facts About Graciela Chichilnisky

Graciela Chichilnisky was born on March 27,1946 and is an Argentine-American economist known for her work in economics and climate change.

Graciela Chichilnisky is co-founder of the direct-air capture company Global Thermostat, and served as its CEO from its founding in 2010 until she stepped down in 2022.

Graciela Chichilnisky was born c March 27,1946 in Buenos Aires, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants.

Graciela Chichilnisky's father was a professor of neurology at the University of Buenos Aires and a friend of Juan Peron.

Chichilnisky was born while Graciela was in high school, and she was raising him as a single mother at the time of her move to MIT.

Graciela Chichilnisky, who had no formal undergraduate education, was accepted to MIT, and matriculated into the doctoral program in mathematics with support from a Ford Foundation scholarship.

Graciela Chichilnisky studied at MIT from 1967 to 1968, then transferred to the University of California, Berkeley.

Graciela Chichilnisky has two children, lives in New York City, and speaks English, Spanish, and French.

Graciela Chichilnisky was named UNESCO Professor of Mathematics and Economics from 1995 to 2008, part of the UNESCO Chairs program.

Graciela Chichilnisky held a chair in economics at the University of Essex from 1980 to 1981, and has additionally served as a visiting professor at other universities, including at the Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University since 2015.

Graciela Chichilnisky served as the company's CEO, and in 2015, was named CEO of the Year in Sustainability by the business magazine International Alternative Investment Review.

Graciela Chichilnisky is the author of over 17 books and over 330 scientific research papers.

Graciela Chichilnisky is best known for designing the carbon market outlined in the Kyoto Protocol, which has been international law since 2005.

Graciela Chichilnisky was a lead author on the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which won that year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Graciela Chichilnisky constructed examples where export-led growth strategies for developing countries could result in paradoxically poor results, because of increasing returns to scale in the technologies of the developed countries.

In welfare economics and voting theory, particularly in the specialty of social choice theory, Graciela Chichilnisky introduced a continuous model of collective decisions to which she applied algebraic topology; following her initiatives, continuous social choice has developed as an international subdiscipline.

In 1994, Graciela Chichilnisky sued two other economics professors, accusing them of stealing her ideas.

Columbia countersued in 2003, but Graciela Chichilnisky settled the case in 2008 and received $200,000; the university did not admit any wrongdoing.

Columbia University maintains that she has a difficult time working with colleagues and is abrasive in nature, while Graciela Chichilnisky holds that these traits would not be pointed out if she were male.