Armon Rezai is an assistant professor in environmental economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) and a guest researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He earned a doctorate in economics from The New School for Social Research, and his work focuses on macroeconomic topics, such as growth and distribution, and their application to ecological problems like climate change. Before joining his current department, he worked as research assistant at the United Nations University’s World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki and the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis in New York. He has also worked as a short-term consultant for the World Bank and has been a Fulbright fellow and visiting fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford University.