Lucas Chancel

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 and teaches at Sciences Po. He is also Codirector of the World Inequality Database and Research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.[1] He works on global inequality, European political economy and Sustainable development.[2] He authored and co-authored several books on these topics.

Lucas Chancel
Born1987
Grenoble, France
InstitutionsParis School of Economics
Sciences Po
FieldPublic economics
Climate change
Alma materSciences Po, London School of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique, Imperial College (MSc)
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PhD)
Doctoral
advisor		Thomas Piketty
WebsiteLucas Chancel

Career

Lucas Chancel pursues his undergraduate studies in social sciences at Sciences Po as well at Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, where he obtains a Bachelor in Physics applied to earth sciences. He earns an M.Sc in Economics and public policy from the Ecole Polytechnique, ENSAE and Sciences Po and pursues his scientific training at Imperial College London where he obtains an M.Sc in engineering specialized in renewable energy. He earns his PhD 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.[3] He also studied at the London School of Economics and at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.[4]

In 2011, he joins the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations and starts to teach at Sciences Po where he currently teaches a Master-level course entitled Global inequality and sustainability.[5] He joins the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics in 2015. He gives conferences on global inequality and sustainability including at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

He collaborates with modern artists, including Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen, on arts and social science projects related to inequality or the economy.[6]

Lucas Chancel is an op-ed contributor to French newspapers Le Monde and Libération and intervenes in the international media to discuss economic developments and present his research findings.[7][8]

On the occasion of the Paris Climate Conference, he defends a global progressive tax on carbon emissions.[9] 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".[10] In 2018, he serves as general coordinator of the World Inequality Report, published in a dozen languages and widely discussed in the global media.[11] In 2019, he co-drafts, along with Thomas Piketty and other intellectuals, the Treaty for the Democratization of Europe.[12] He is lead researcher of a chapter of Human Development Report 2019 on global inequality and poverty.[13] In 2020, il argues in favor of debt mutualization between France, Italy and Spain in the context of the Coronavirus crisis.[14]

Bibliography
  • Chancel, Lucas (2017). Insoutenables inégalités: Pour une justice sociale et environnementale. Les Petits Matins.
  • with Manon Bouju, Anne-Laure Delatte, Stéphanie Hennette, Thomas Piketty, Guillaume Sacriste, Antoine Vauchez (2019). Treaty for the Democratization of Europe. Seuil.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • with Facundo Alvaredo, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman (2018). World Inequality Report. Seuil.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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References
  1. "Biography of Lucas Chancel on the Paris School of Economics website".
  2. "Biography of Lucas Chancel on IDDRI's website".
  3. "Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Best PhD Thesis Prizes".
  4. "Prix de thèse Paris Sciences Lettre - Lauréats, Mentions Spéciales".
  5. "Sciences Po School of Public Affairs website" (PDF).
  6. "Lucas Chancel", Wikipédia (in French), 2020-05-07, retrieved 2020-05-08
  7. "Lucas Chancel | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  8. Vijayakumar, Sanjay (2017-09-08). "Income inequality in India at its highest level since 1922, says Lucas Chancel". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  9. "Guardian.com, French economists moot €180 levy on business class tickets to help vulnerable countries adapt to the impacts of climate change".
  10. "" Insoutenables inégalités " : un plaidoyer pour un monde plus juste et plus durable". LeMonde.fr.
  11. "World Inequality Report". World Inequality Report.
  12. "Treaty for the Democratization of Europe".
  13. "Human Development Report 2019" (PDF).
  14. "Chancel, "Italia e Francia devono fare gli eurobond senza la Germania"".
  15. "Unsustainable Inequalities, Harvard University Press Catalogue". Harvard University Press.
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