Nicolas Schneider, PhD is a Senior Research Engineer – Macroeconomist at EDHEC Climate Institute. He leads the development of quantitative methodologies to assess long-term physical climate risks and associated projected macroeconomic damages, supporting both the Institute’s research activities and its venture initiatives, including Scientific Climate Ratings and Scientific Portfolio. He previously consulted for the New York City Mayor's Office of Climate and served as a fellow in the Coupled Human and Earth Systems Program of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Multi-Sector Dynamics Modeling Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. from Boston University, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), and MSc degrees from the London School of Economics and Paris-Sorbonne University. He has co-authored several peer-reviewed articles and has taught at Harvard University’s Department of General Education, in the Quantitative Methods Seminar at the Oxford Smith School, as well as in the joint MSc between EDHEC Business School and Mines Paris-PSL.
