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. He works on global inequality, European political economy and Sustainable development. He authored and co-authored several books on these topics. Career 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. He earned 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 obtained 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. He also studied at the London School of Economics and at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. 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. 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.