Bruno Lanz

Bruno Lanz is Professor (Chair) of Applied Economics at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. His work is in environmental and public economics, with current projects focusing on the economic costs of climate change adaptation, biodiversity-agriculture linkages, and evidence-based policy design for the energy transition.

Background

Bruno is Director of the Institute of Economic Research at the University of Neuchâtel. He serves on the editorial board of Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy. He is External Faculty at MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) and an Associate Researcher at ETH Zürich. He holds a PhD in Economics from ETH Zürich and an MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics from UCL, following earlier degrees in economics at the University of Lausanne.

Prior roles include Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Neuchâtel, Research Programme Director at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), research and visiting appointments at MIT, ETH Zürich, UC Davis, Chiba University, and the University of Wisconsin Madison, and work as an environmental economics consultant with eftec.

Research interests

• Climate-change economics: growth, adaptation, integrated assessment
• Land use, agriculture and biodiversity
• Policy design, empirical evaluation and experiments (lab, field, survey)
• Energy and carbon pricing; energy efficiency
• Climate and weather shocks; conflict and migration