Eugenie Dugoua

Eugenie is an environmental economist studying how policy, institutions, and general-purpose technologies like AI shape science and innovation for the environment and energy. Her research combines economic theory, causal inference, and large-scale patent and publication data to answer questions such as: Does international environmental cooperation induce green innovation? Can AI accelerate clean energy invention and biodiversity conservation? How does public R&D funding create the scientists and engineers needed for decarbonisation?

Eugenie is an Associate Professor in Environmental Economics at the London School of Economics, in the Department of Geography and Environment, and Co-Lead of "Generating Sustainable Growth" at the LSE Global School of Sustainability. She is a Research Affiliate at CEPR and a CESifo Affiliate, and is associated with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, the Centre for Economic Performance, and the Data Science Institute at LSE. Before turning to economics, she trained as a chemist and chemical engineer at Chimie-Paris, in France — a background that informs her interest in how technologies develop and diffuse. She holds a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University, where she wrote her thesis on the economics of technological change

Research interests

• Climate innovation and policy
• Directed technological change
• AI and the environment
• Science and R&D policy
• Energy economics.