Solomon Hsiang

Solomon Hsiang is the Chancellor's Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Hsiang founded and directs the Global Policy Laboratory at the Goldman School of Public Policy and co-directs the Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration between Berkeley, University of Chicago, Rutgers University, and the Rhodium Group.

Hsiang's research integrates economics, statistics, and the physical sciences to understand how policy can encourage economic development while managing the global environment. Hsiang's work includes research on climate change, economic development, natural disasters, poaching, agriculture, violent conflict, water resources, human migration, air pollution, risk management, and econometric methods. Hsiang's research has been central to understanding the economic effects of climate change and the role of climate in human conflict.

Hsiang earned a BS in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science and a BS in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he received a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Applied Econometrics at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University.