Asjad Naqvi
Senior Economist at The World Bank
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolAsjad Naqvi is a senior economist based in Vienna with over a decade of research and policy experience focused on climate change, climate finance, and the distributional impacts of climate shocks. He combines academic rigor—anchored by a PhD from The New School and a Habilitation from WU—with practical policy work at institutions like IIASA, the World Bank, and WIFO. His research emphasizes systems-based, no- or low-regret solutions that align economic and environmental objectives while accounting for cascading risks and equity considerations. Asjad has moved seamlessly between academia and applied policy roles, teaching and supervising at Vienna University of Economics and contributing to international risk and vulnerability programs. He brings a global perspective grounded in work across Austria and Pakistan and a track record of translating complex climate-economy interactions into actionable policy advice. Notably, his profile reflects both long-term scholarly commitments and ongoing consultancy work that bridge theory and real-world decision-making.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Economics, MSc, Economics at Lahore University of Management SciencesPhD, Economics, PhD, Economics at New School UniversityHabilitation, Economics (VWL), Habilitation, Economics (VWL) at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)BSc (Hons), Economics and Management, BSc (Hons), Economics and Management at University of London External Programme
English, Urdu, German
Github Skills (34)
netlogo10
r10
graph10
stata10
ado10
agent-based-modeling9
points9
delaunay9
corona8
convex-hull8
stream8
convex8
voronoi8
austria8
delaunay-triangulation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
asjadnaqvi/stata-bimap
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:19 releases, 37 commits, 84 pushes in 7 months
asjadnaqvi/stata-sunburst
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:10 releases, 11 commits, 28 pushes in 1 month
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