CV
General Information
| Name | Asjad Naqvi |
| Contact | asjadnaqvi@gmail.com |
| Languages | English (fluent), German (ÖSD-ÖIF B1, B2 courses), Urdu (native) |
Research Areas
- climate change, economic impacts, ABMs, SFCs, causal inference designs (RDD, RCT, DiD).
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 (external GMU), 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
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 - 2019
SEEP Masters Program, WU Vienna
- 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 csdid (ssc install csdid) based on Sant'Anna and Zhao (2020).
Computer skills
- Programming languages: Stata, Mathematica, NetLogo, R, MATLAB, Gephi, LaTeX, Markdown
- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, Ruby, Python
Miscellaneous
- Hobbies: collecting data, photography, gaming, movies, sci-fi, chess