Field of research: climate
Jared Finnegan
Jared Finnegan is Assistant Professor in Public Policy at UCL. Before joining UCL, he held postdoctoral positions at UC Berkeley and Princeton University and was also a Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. He earned his PhD in Political Science in 2019 from LSE. Jared Finnegan studies climate change and energy politics across the high-income democracies, investigating the conditions under which governments are able to adopt stringent decarbonization policies, the drivers of business’ policy preferences, and how voters respond to climate-related reforms. More broadly, he is interested in the politics of long-term policymaking and governance.
(Last updated April 2025)
Diego S. Cardoso
Diego S. Cardoso is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics). He received his PhD from Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. His research focuses on designing and evaluating policies related to the energy transition, climate, and the use of natural resources. He is also interested in the intersection of applied welfare analysis and risk modeling for benefit-cost analysis.