Economics Lecture Series: Opportunities to Mitigate Climate Change in Developing Countries
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- Kehr Union, Multipurpose Rooms A&B and Livestreamed
- Bloomsburg
Categories:
Opportunities to
Mitigate Climate Change
in Developing Countries
Dr. Seema Jayachandran
Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Thursday, Nov. 14, 2 p.m.
Kehr Union, Multipurpose Rooms A&B
Live and open to the public
Livestream Link.
Seema Jayachandran is a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her research focuses on environmental conservation, gender equality, and other microeconomic topics in developing countries.
She serves on the board of directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and leads J-PAL's gender sector. She is also co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's program in Development Economics and co-editor of American Economic Review: Insights. In addition, she serves on CARE's board of directors.
Prior to joining Princeton, she was a faculty member at Northwestern University and Stanford University. She earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University, a master's degree in physics and philosophy from the University of Oxford where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from MIT.