Dr. Sreoshi Banerjee

Sreoshi Banerjee is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany, where she is part of the Welfare and Policy Design group (headed by Prof. Matthias Kalkuhl) and the Sustainable Carbon Management group (headed by Prof. Sabine Fuss) within the Department of Climate Economics and Policy at EUREF Campus, Berlin.

Her research focuses on designing solution-oriented policy portfolios for climate change mitigation, governing the global commons, and enhancing human well-being. She is currently working on incentive schemes for tropical rainforest conservation.

Before joining PIK, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the QSMS Research Centre, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), under Prof. László Kóczy, and a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester (NY) under Prof. William Thomson in Fall 2023.

Sreoshi earned her Ph.D. in Quantitative Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute (Kolkata) under the supervision of (Late) Prof. (HAG) Manipushpak Mitra. Her doctoral work explored how welfare bounds shape sequencing problems. She also visited the Economics and Planning Unit at ISI Delhi, collaborating with Prof. Debasis Mishra.

Her research draws on analytical tools and approaches from Microeconomic Theory, Mechanism Design, Cooperative Game Theory, and Axiomatic Analysis to address real-world policy challenges.

Research Interests:
Climate Economics and Policy Design · Financing Global Public Goods · Welfare Economics · Resource Allocation · Justice Theory