Biography

Dr Aurélien Saussay is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics in the Grantham Research Institute and the co-founder and co-Director of the LSE Green Skills Lab. He is also an LSE's Center for Economic Performance Associate, a member of the French Council of Economic Advisers (CAE), a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2022-2025) and he has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School in the Fall semesters 2024 and 2025. His research lies at the intersection of environmental, labour and macroeconomics. His main agenda focuses on the employment impacts of decarbonization, leveraging large-scale online job vacancy datasets and modern NLP techniques in particular. His secondary research stream assesses the macroeconomic impacts of climate change mitigation policies.

Current areas of research include:

• Labour economics: Employment impacts of decarbonization; Labour impacts of green innovation adoption; Survey experiment on non-monetary compensation in green jobs; Impacts of green apprenticeship on labour market
• Macroeconomics: Fiscal policy for climate change; Trade wars impacts on GHG emissions
• Environmental Economics: Long-term societal costs of air pollution; Impact of floods on public firms' stock performance; Market power and heatpump adoption in the UK;