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General information

Name Asjad Naqvi
Topics climate-finance macro models, climate diagnostics and decision support tools, data workflow and data science

Education

  • 2020
    Habilitation in Economics
    Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), Vienna, Austria
  • 2007 - 2012
    Ph.D. in Economics
    New School for Social Research (NSSR), New York, USA
  • 2003 - 2004
    M.Sc. in Economics
    Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan
  • 1998 - 2001
    B.Sc. (Hons.) Economics and Management
    University of London External Programme

Work experience

  • 2022 -
    Senior Economist, Environment, Agriculture and Energy
    Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna, Austria
  • 2023 -
    Coalition of Capacity for Climate Action (C3A)
    The World Bank, Washington DC
  • 2017 - 2023
    Research Scholar, Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)
    International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
  • 2013 - 2023
    Assistant Professor, Institute for Ecological Eonomics
    Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), Vienna, Austria
  • 2011 - 2013
    Research Director
    Center for Economic Research Pakistan (CERP), Lahore, Pakistan
  • 2004 - 2007
    Research Associate
    Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan
  • 2001 - 2003
    Lecturer,
    University College Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Projects

  • 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
    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)
  • 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 the Austrian context (MOBALANCE)
    FFG (Austria)
  • 2017 - 2019
    Sustainable Growth in the Presence of Complex Financial Markets
    ÖNB Jubiläumsfond
  • 20176 - 2018
    Pathways towards a Prosperous and Just EU Bioeconomy (BIOWAY)
    ÖNB Jubiläumsfond
  • 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
  • Donors
    • Österreichische Nationalbanks Jubiläumsfonds (ÖNB, Austria), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Germany)

Selected presentations

  • 2022
    • Stata Switzerland 2022 conference (Nov 2022)
    • Invited talk, Stata UK 2022 conference (Sep 2022)
    • Keynote, Stata Oceania 2022 conference (Jan 2022)
  • 2021
    • Keynote, Stata UK 2021 conference (Sep 2021)
    • Modeling disasters impacts, cascading losses and economic complexity, UN OCHA (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • 2020
    • Environmental Inequality in Austria - Implications for COVID-19, COVID-19 Future Operations Platform (Vienna, Austria)
  • 2019
    • Coupled climate-ecology-economy modeling and model hierarchies, Institut Henri Poincare (Paris, France)
    • Annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Regional Forschung (GfR), European Regional Science Association (ERSA) (Matrei in Osttirol, Austria)
    • 20th Annual Austrian Climate Center meeting (Klimatag), Climate Change Center Austria (CCCA) (Vienna, Austria)
  • 2018
    • Annual conference of the European Association Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) (Nice, France)
    • Knowledge Systems for Sustainability Collaborative (KSS), Climate KIC (European Comission) (Trento, Italy)
    • Annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Regional Forschung (GfR), European Regional Science Association (ERSA) (Innsbruck, Austria)
    • Uncovering the hidden cost of internal displacement, Internal Displacement Monitoring Cell (IDMC) (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • 2017
    • Annual conference of the European Association Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) (Budapest, Hungary)
    • Instructor for the FMM Summer School (Berlin, Germany)
    • Annual conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) (Budapest, Hungary)
    • Annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Regional Forschung (GfR), European Regional Science Association (ERSA) (Spital am Phyrrn, Austria)

Teaching experience

  • 2020 -
    Various lectures, workshops, and courses on Stata
  • 2014 -
    SEEP Masters Program, Bachelors program
    WU Vienna, Vienna, Austria
    • Zukunftsfähiges Wirtschaften II (ZuWi II)
    • Environment and the Economy II
    • Environmental Change and Policy II (3 semesters)
    • Growth, Well-being, and Development (2 semesters)
    • Bridging course in Economics (2 semesters)
  • 2007 - 2010
    Computer Language Workshop, New School for Social Research
  • 2005 - 2006
    Economic Masters program, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
  • 2001 - 2003
    University of London External Programme, University College Lahore

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)
    • Winner Stockholm Challenge (2006)

Computer skills

    • Programming languages: Stata, Mathematica, NetLogo, MATLAB, Gephi, LaTeX, Markdown, MS Office
    • Basic knowledge: R, Python, JavaScript, C++