John Mutter

John Mutter is a professor in Columbia's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the School of International and Public Affairs. With economist Eric Strobl of École polytechnique, he led the Alliance project "Sustainable Economic Development and Natural Disaster Shocks," combining natural-science and economic data, including satellite-derived nightlights as a proxy for development, to study the short- and long-run economic effects of earthquakes, and co-taught a graduate course on disasters and development in Paris and New York.