CV
General information
Name | Asjad Naqvi |
Contact | asjadnaqvi@gmail.com |
Languages | English (fluent), German (ÖSD/ÖIF B1, B2 courses), Urdu (native) |
Research interests
Topics | climate change, economic impacts, complex networks, North-South interactions, green investment, behavioral response to shocks, disaster risk reduction (DRR), disaster recovery financing |
Methods | Stock-flow consistent (SFC) macro models, agent-based models (ABMs), causal inference designs (DiD, RDDs, RCTs) |
Education
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Oct 2020
Habilitation in Economics - Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien)
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2007 - 2012
Ph.D. in Economics - New School for Social Research (NSSR)
- Supervisor: Prof. Duncan Foley
- Thesis: Simulating Shocks in Regional Economies: Application of Agent-Based Models in Understanding Natural Disasters.
- Thesis committee: Duncan Foley, Robert Axtell (George Mason U.), Sanjay Reddy, Lopa Banerjee
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2003 - 2004
M.Sc. in Economics - Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
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1998 - 2001
B.Sc. (Hons.) Economics and Management - University of London External Programme
Work experience
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2020 -
Assistant Professor, Institute for Ecological Eonomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien)
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2017 -
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2013 - 2019
Assistant Professor, Institute for Ecological Eonomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien)
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2011 - 2013
Research Director, Center for Economic Research Pakistan (CERP)
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2004 - 2007
Research Associate, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
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2001 - 2003
Lecturer, University College Lahore
Grants
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2021 - 2023
Distributional effects of climate shocks -- A macroeconomic perspective (DiOD)
- ÖNB Jubiläumsfond
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2019 - 2021
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)
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2018 - 2021
Simulating the environmental and socio-economic effects of shared autonomous electric vehicles: the case of Vienna (SIMSAEV)
- Austrian Climate Research Program (ACRP)
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2018 - 2019
Possibilities of consciously shaping mobility through the application of the principle of sufficiency in the Austrian context (MOBALANCE)
- FFG (Austria)
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2017 - 2019
Sustainable Growth in the Presence of Complex Financial Markets
- ÖNB Jubiläumsfond
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20176 - 2018
Pathways towards a Prosperous and Just EU Bioeconomy (BIOWAY)
- ÖNB Jubiläumsfond
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2013 - 2016
Microbe Literacy Health Initiative (MLI)
- UBS Optimus Foundation (Switzerland)
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2014 - 2019
Building Capacity to use Research Evidence (BCURE)
- Department for International Development (DfID) (UK)
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2012 - 2016
Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (The CLEAR Initiative)
- The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), World Bank (USA)
Peer-reviewing activities
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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
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Donors
- Österreichische Nationalbanks Jubiläumsfonds (ÖNB, Austria), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Germany)
Selected presentations
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2021
- Advanced data visualizations with Stata, Keynote, Stata UK 2021 conference (online)
- Modeling disasters impacts, cascading losses and economic complexity, UN OCHA(Geneva, Switzerland) (online)
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2020
- Environmental Inequality in Austria - Implications for COVID-19, COVID-19 Future Operations Platform (Vienna, Austria)
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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)
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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)
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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
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2014 -
SEEP Masters Program, WU Vienna
- 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)
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2007 - 2010
Computer Language Workshop, New School for Social Research
- Computer labs for PhD courses in Stata, Mathematica, NetLogo
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2005 - 2006
Economic Masters program, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
- Development Economics
- Econometrics I
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2001 - 2003
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)
- Winner of the Stockholm Challenge for RISEPAK website (2006)
Data, code, and blogs
- See various repositories on GitHub
- Notes on recent developments in the Diff-in-diff literature
- The Stata Guide on Medium
- COVID-19 European Regional Tracker
- COVID-19 Austrian Tracker
- Co-authored Stata package drdid (ssc install drdid, replace) with 'Fernando Rios-Avila' and 'Pedro Sant'Anna' based on 'Sant'Anna and Zhao (2020)'.
Computer skills
- Programming languages: Stata, Mathematica, NetLogo, R, MATLAB, Gephi, LaTeX, Markdown
- Basic knowledge of: Ruby, Python, JavaScript, C++, Rust, HTML, CSS
Miscellaneous
- Hobbies: photography, movies, sci-fi, music