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Solomon Hsiang is the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, a Co-Director at the Climate Impact Lab, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a National Geographic Explorer, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and a Senior Fellow with the Berkeley Institute of Data Science.

He combines data with mathematical models to understand how society and the environment influence one another. In particular, he focuses on how policy can encourage economic development while managing the global climate.

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 Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Econometrics at the NBER and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University.