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General Information

Name Asjad Naqvi (he/him)
Languages English (fluent), Urdu (native), German (B2/C1)

Education

  • 2020

    Vienna, Austria

    Habilitation in Economics
    Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien)
  • 2007 - 2012

    New York, USA

    Ph.D. Economics
    New School for Social Research (NSSR)
  • 2003 - 2004

    Lahore, Pakistan

    M.Sc. Economics
    Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
  • 1998 - 2001

    Lahore, Pakistan

    B.Sc. (Hons.) Economics and Management
    University of London External Programme

Work experience

  • 2022 -

    Vienna, Austria

    Senior Economist
    Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO)
  • 2022 -

    Remote

    Consultant
    The World Bank
  • 2013 - 2024

    Vienna, Austria

    Assistant Professor
    Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien)
  • 2017 - 2023

    Laxenburg, Austria

    Research Scholar
    International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
  • 2011 - 2013

    Lahore, Pakistan

    Research Director
    Center for Economic Research Pakistan (CERP)
  • 2004 - 2007

    Lahore, Pakistan

    Research Associate
    Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
  • 2001 - 2003

    Lahore, Pakistan

    Lecturer
    University College Lahore

Projects

  • 2025 -
    Präventive Handlungsoptionen für eine Neuausrichtung einer wirtschaftlichen Sicherheitsstrategie Österreichs (Phoenigs)
    BMLV, BMAW, FFG (Austria)
  • 2023 -
    Supply Chain Intelligence Institute Austria (ASCII)
    Federal Ministry of Labor and Economy (Austria), Province of Upper Austria
  • 2023 - 2025
    Second Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change (AAR2)
    Climate Change Center Austria (CCCA)
  • 2023 -
    The Coalition for Capacity on Climate Action (C3A)
    The World Bank
  • 2022 - 2023
    Robust supply chains for agricultural goods and food in Austria (ROBVEK)
    Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism (BML, Austria)
  • 2021 - 2023
    Distributional effects of climate shocks - A macroeconomic perspective (DiOD)
    ÖNB Jubiläumsfond
  • 2022 - 2022
    Pakistan's Climate Change Development Report (CCDR)
    The World Bank
  • 2019 - 2022
    Scaling-up green finance to achieve the climate and energy targets - An assessment of macro-financial opportunities and challenges for Austria (GREENFIN)
    Austrian Climate Research Program (ACRP)
  • 2019 - 2022
    An empirical analysis of environmental inequality in the EU (EnvINEQEU)
    Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  • 2018 - 2022
    Simulating the environmental and socio-economic effects of shared autonomous electric vehicles - the case of Vienna (SIMSAEV)
    Austrian Climate Research Program (ACRP)
  • 2018 - 2019
    Possibilities of consciously shaping mobility through the application of the principle of sufficiency in Austria (MOBALANCE)
    FFG (Austria)
  • 2017 - 2019
    Sustainable Growth in the Presence of Complex Financial Markets
    ÖNB Jubiläumsfond
  • 2017 - 2018
    Internal Displacement Risk (IDR)
    USAID-OFDA (USA) and IDMC (Switzerland)
  • 2016 - 2018
    Pathways towards a Prosperous and Just EU Bioeconomy (BIOWAY)
    ÖNB Jubiläumsfond
  • 2012 - 2016
    Wealth, Welfare, and Work for Europe (www4europe)
    H2020
  • 2013 - 2016
    Microbe Literacy Health Initiative (MLI)
    UBS Optimus Foundation (Switzerland)
  • 2014 - 2019
    Building Capacity to use Research Evidence (BCURE)
    Department for International Development (DfID) (UK)
  • 2012 - 2016
    Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (The CLEAR Initiative)
    The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), World Bank (USA)

Peer-reviewing activities

  • Journals
    • Nature Climate Change, Nature Human Behavior, Climate Policy, Climatic Change, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Cleaner Production, Ecological Economics, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Environmental Change, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, European Sociological Review, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Journal fo Computational Social Science, Stata Journal, Water Resource and Economics
  • Grant evaluations
    • Österreichische Nationalbanks Jubiläumsfonds (ÖNB, Austria), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Germany), Dutch Research Council (NWO, Netherlands)

Teaching experience

  • 2014 - 2024

    Vienna, Austria

    Vienna University of Economics and Business
    • Environment and the Economy II
    • Zukunftsfähiges Wirtschaften II (ZuWi II)
    • Environmental Change and Policy II
    • Growth, Well-being, and Development
    • Bridging course in Economics
  • 2007 - 2010

    New York, USA

    New School for Social Research
    • Computer language training programs for PhD students in Stata, Mathematica, NetLogo
  • 2005 - 2006

    Lahore, Pakistan

    Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
    • Development Economics
    • Econometrics I
  • 2001 - 2003

    Lahore, Pakistan

    University of London External Programme, University College Lahore
    • Mathematics for Economists
    • Advanced Mathematics for Economists
    • Quantitative Methods
    • Statistics I and II

Honors and Awards

    • Fulbright Scholarship (2007-2011)
    • Best poster award at the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE), Budapest, Hungary (2017)
    • Eduard-März-Prize for the best paper at the AK Young Economists Conference, Vienna, Austria (2014)
    • IIASA Young Scientists Scholarshop Program (YSSP) (2012)

Data, code, and blogs

Computer skills

    • Proficient in: Stata, Mathematica, NetLogo, Gephi, LaTeX, Markdown
    • Working knowledge of: R, MATLAB, Python, JavaScript, C++, Quarto, other data visualization development platforms.