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The war on air pollution

Hosted by LSE Environment Week

In-person and online public event (Old Theatre, OId Building)

Speakers

Professor Michael Greenstone

Professor Michael Greenstone

Professor Namrata Kala

Professor Namrata Kala

Omar Masud

Omar Masud

Liu Xin

Liu Xin

Chair

Dr Clare Balboni

Dr Clare Balboni

The average person on the planet is losing about 2 years of life expectancy due to air pollution. It represents one of the greatest challenges that humanity faces. Despite greatly compromising people's well being and contributing to climate change it receives too little attention.

This event will raise the profile of this important determinant of human well-being and explore innovative ways to reduce it. To do this we will pair prominent academics and policy makers working on the frontline of the war on air pollution to help map a path forward for the world.

Meet our speakers and chair

Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics as well as the Director of the Becker Friedman Institute and the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He previously served as the Chief Economist for President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he co-led the development of the United States Government’s social cost of carbon.

Namrata Kala is the W. Maurice Young (1961) Career Development Professor of Management and Assistant Professor in Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an economist with research interests in environmental and development economics.

Muhammad Omar Masud is the CEO of the Urban Unit and a member of the Pakistan Administrative Service. His work at the Urban Unit, a policy and design think tank within the government, is focused on improving city responses to large challenges. Previously, he served as the Government of Punjab’s Additional Secretary of Finance, with over 15 years of diverse management experience in Pakistan’s civil service.  He holds a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton University and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in urban policy.

Liu Xin directs the Environmental Management Program at Energy Foundation China, aiming at accelerating the improvement of China’s air and water quality, and enhancing their synergies with climate change mitigation. Prior to joining the foundation in January 2019, he worked as the Deputy Director of the Regional Air Quality Management Division at the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, focusing on coordinated air efforts in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei province that could help the region known as “Jing-Jin-Ji” fight smog. He is also the executive director of China Clean Air Policy Partnership (CCAPP) and Standing member of Ozone Pollution Control Committee at Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences.

Clare Balboni is Assistant Professor of Economics and STICERD Economics of Environment and Energy Programme Directory. She is an alumnus of LSE.

More about this event

This event will be available to watch on LSE Live. LSE Live is the new home for our live streams, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE, wherever you are in the world. If you can't attend live, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE's YouTube channel.

The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (@STICERD_LSE), International Growth Centre (@The_IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (@POID_LSE) within the LSE Department of Economics is convening the second Environment Week at LSE on 11-14 September 2023. Working with partners at the School and across the world we want to use Environment Week to encourage economists from all fields of economics to work on environmental issues and to connect this work to policy change.

This is one of three public events during LSE Environment Week, the others are:

12 September - From adversity to resilience: climate justice in developing countries

14 September - An industrial strategy for the green economy

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEEnvironmentWeek

Featured image (used in source code with watermark added): Photo by Vincent M.A. Janssen on Pexels.

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