10/22/03

 

Graciela Chichilnisky

 

 

Position:          UNESCO Professor of Mathematics and Economics,

Professor of Statistics, Columbia University

Director, Program on Information and Resources (PIR)

Director, Columbia Consortium for Risk Management (CCRM)

 

 

 

Address:          Department of Statistics             PIR:    Address:      475 Riverside Drive, #248

629 Mathematics                                                      New York, NY  10115

                        Columbia University                               Telephone:  (212) 851-1689                   

                        Mail Code 4403                                     Fax:             (212) 851-1690

                        2990 Broadway

                        New York, NY  10027

                                                           

 

Telephone:     (212) 854-6897                                                 

                        (609) 688-0218                                           

                        (212) 678-1148                                                        

                                                                                   

Fax:                 (212) 678-0405                                     

                        (212) 944-8851

 

Personal:

 

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and US citizen since 1991. Fluent in Spanish and French. Two children: Eduardo Jose Chichilnisky, and Natasha Sable Chichilnisky-Heal.

 

Academic Positions:

 

2007                    Senior Research Fellow, International Monetary Fund Institute, Washington DC June 2007

1998 -                  Director, Columbia Consortium for Risk Management, Columbia  

University  (CCRM)

1994 -                  Director, Program on Information and Resources, Columbia University (PIR)

 

1995 -                  UNESCO Professor of Mathematics and Economics and Professor of Statistics, Columbia University

 

1980 -                  Professor of Economics, Columbia University Tenured since 1979

 

1994-95               Salinbemi Chair, Universita di Siena, Italy

 

1993 ­ 94             Visiting Professor of Economics and Operations Research, Department of Economics, Department of Operations Research, and Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

 

1991- 1993           Visiting Professor, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE), Stanford University, Summers of 1991,1992, 1993, and 1994

 

1980-81               Chair in Economics, University of Essex, United Kingdom

 

1977-80               Associate Professor of Economics, Columbia University, Tenured since 1979

 

1978                    Fellow, Harvard Institute of International Development, Harvard University 

 

Professional Positions:

 

2002                    Member of Board of Trustees, Mediterranean College, Athens, Greece

 

1999-                    Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

 

1976-1986            Associate Editor, Journal of Development Economics Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

1981-1986            Editorial Board, Review of Economic Studies Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF UK

 

1993-1996            Editorial Board, Economics Letters Elsevier Science SA, PO Box 564, CH-1001, Lausanne, Switzerland

 

1993-                   Editorial Board, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London, EC4P 4EE, UK

 

1997-                   Member of Editorial Board, Advances in Applied Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, MA

 

Listed in:

 

Who is Who in the World

Who is Who in America

Who is Who of Science and Engineering

Who is Who of Intellectuals

Who is Who in American Education

Dictionary of International Biography

2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century

 

Education:

 

1968-71               PhD Program in Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley Degrees: MA, 1970, PhD in Mathematics, 1971

Thesis title:  "Lifting Action on Spin Manifolds"

PhD Adviser: Professor Jerrold Marsden

 

1972-74               PhD Program in Economics, University of California, Berkeley Degree:  PhD in Economics, 1976

Thesis title: "Manifolds of Preferences and Equilibria"

Ph D Adviser: Professor Gerard Debreu

 

Honors, Awards and Selected Presentations:

           

1995                    “Markets with Emissions Trading: the Case for an International Bank for Environmental Settlements,” Keynote Plenary address to: The Third Annual World Bank Conference on Effective Financing of Environmentally            Sustainable Development, The World Bank, October 5, 1995, Washington, DC

 

1995                    Leif Johansen Award, "Endogenous Uncertainty & Resource Allocation," March 1995, University of Oslo, Norway

 

1994 ­ 95             Salinbemi Chair, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

  

Other Professional Positions and Research Projects:

 

1971           Member, Presidential Cabinet of Banco Central de la Republica Argentina (Central Bank of Argentina) President: Daniel Fernandez

 

1982           Economic Consultant, OPEC Secretariat, Vienna, Austria

 

1985-89      CEO and Chairman, FITEL Limited (New York, London, Tokyo)

 

1994-98      Member of Board of Trustees, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), New York

 

1998                      Principal Investigator, UN Foundation Grant, awarded by UN Foundation for work with United Nations, “Technology Transfer and Emissions Trading A Win-Win Approach to the Kyoto

Protocol”

 

2000-02       2000-02  CEO, Consultant and Director, CrossBorder Exchange Corporation, New York, NY

           

            2003           Consultant, Chairman, CrossBorder Exchange Corporation, New York, NY