Speaker Series with Solomon Hsiang
A conversation on data for adaption to climate change
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On April 16, the Stanford King Center on Global Development held a Speaker Series with Solomon Hsiang, the Chancellor's Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and King Center's Noosheen Hashemi Visiting Scholar, who led a discussion on data for adaption to climate change. The discussion was moderated by Marshall Burke. This event was co-sponsored by the Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment and the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health.
Solomon Hsiang
Solomon Hsiang combines data with mathematical models to understand how society and the environment influence one another. In particular, he focuses on how policy can encourage economic development while managing the global climate. His research has been published in Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hsiang earned a BS in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science and a BS in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he received a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Applied Econometrics at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University. Hsiang is currently the Chancellor's Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and a Research Associate at the NBER.
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