Carolyn Fischer is a Lead Economist focusing on climate and energy challenges in the Planet Team of the World Bank’s Development Research Group. Her research addresses topics of environmental policy instrument design at the intersection with technical change, trade, development, carbon leakage, and overlapping objectives. She has held appointments as a professor of environmental economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and as a Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation and Policy at the University of Ottawa. She spent the first 20 years of her career at Resources for the Future (RFF), where she continues to enjoy a senior fellow affiliation, along with the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, and is a member of the CESifo Research Network. She has served on the boards of both the American and European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, editorial boards of leading environmental economics journals, and expert advisory boards for research institutes and programs in Europe and in North America. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
