Lucas Chancel is Codirector and Senior economist at the World Inequality Lab of the Paris School of Economics and teaches at Sciences Po.
11 Facts About Lucas Chancel
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Lucas Chancel is Codirector of the World Inequality Database and Research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.
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Lucas Chancel authored and co-authored several books on these topics.
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Lucas Chancel pursued his undergraduate studies in social sciences at Sciences Po as well as Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, where he obtained a Bachelor in Physics and applied to earth sciences.
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Lucas Chancel earns his PhD in economics from the School for Advances Studies in the Social Sciences and Paris Sciences Lettres University in 2018.
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Lucas Chancel wrote his dissertation entitled "Essays on global income and pollution inequality" under the supervision of Thomas Piketty and obtained the special mention of the Jury at the Best PhD Thesis prize of Paris Sciences Lettres University.
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Lucas Chancel studied at the London School of Economics and at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
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Lucas Chancel joins the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics in 2015.
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Lucas Chancel has given lectures, conducted conferences on global inequality and sustainability including at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
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Lucas Chancel is an op-ed contributor to French newspapers Le Monde and Liberation and intervenes in the international media to discuss economic developments and present his research findings.
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Lucas Chancel is lead researcher of a chapter of Human Development Report 2019 on global inequality and poverty.