Willi Semmler Appointed to Evaluation Committee at International Research Institute
Willi Semmler, Henry Arnhold Professor of Economics, has been appointed to the evaluation team at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. He joins several other representatives on an international committee to review research programs related to advanced systems analysis; water; and, risk, policy, and vulnerability.
The IASA is considered an important large-scale research institute conducting academic research for several purposes, including reaching the United Nations’ stated Sustainable Development goals. The institution supports research on issues of global impact, and its mission, described in its current strategic plan, is “to provide insights and guidance to policymakers worldwide by finding solutions to global and universal problems through applied systems analysis in order to improve human and social wellbeing and to protect the environment.”
Bio | Semmler is Henry Arnhold Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. He received his PhD from the Free University of Berlin. His research and teaching interests are: Empirical Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics of the US and EU, Financial Markets, Economics of Climate Change, Business Cycles, and Macro Dynamics. Semmler recently co-authored The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming (Oxford University Press, 2015). Other publications include Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics, Volume 2: Integrated Approaches (Routledge, 2012) and Asset Prices, Booms and Recessions: Financial Economics from a Dynamic Perspective (Springer Publishing, 2011).
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