International Karl Polanyi Society

Lucas Chancel is a tenured Associate Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, where he is affiliated with the Center for Research on Social Inequalities and the Department of Economics. He also serves as Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics and is a Senior Advisor at the European Tax Observatory. After recent visiting positions at the Harvard Kennedy School and the London School of Economics, Lucas Chancel will be the ninth Vienna Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor and will share his research and insights in this role.

A leading scholar on the intersection of inequality and environmental policy, Chancel’s work highlights how economic and environmental inequalities reinforce each other in numerous ways, creating a “triple climate inequality crisis.” He has examined the widening economic disparities within global North countries and the historical responsibility of industrialized nations for anthropogenic climate change. His recent research focuses on one of today’s most pressing challenges: how the costs of environmental damage and the energy transition can be distributed in a way that advances social justice.