Wolfram Schlenker

Wolfram Schlenker is a professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs whose research focuses on environmental and agricultural economics. He has worked extensively on the effect of weather, especially extreme heat, on agricultural yields, and on the implications for food prices and socio-economic spillovers such as refugee flows to the European Union. During his Alliance visiting professorship at École polytechnique, he pursued research on food price volatility, including how spatially correlated weather shocks affect global food prices.