Biography
Dr. Misato Sato is Associate Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Research Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE, and Co-Director of the LSE Green Skills Lab. She is a Co-Editor of Environmental and Resource Economics, a DIW Research Fellow, and serves on the ESRC Environmental Social Science Strategic Advisory Group. She has led and co-led collaborative projects and grants across ESRC, Horizon Europe, JPI Climate and the Research Council of Norway.
Current areas of research include:
- Green skills & labour markets: understanding how the net-zero transition reshapes labour markets, especially skill demand, wages, mobility, productivity, regional development and welfare.
- Industrial decarbonisation, competitiveness & trade: evaluating firm- and sector-level impacts of carbon pricing, energy costs and trade exposure on firm outcomes such as emissions, productivity, innovation, investment and carbon leakage.
- Climate policy design & evaluation: assessing effectiveness of climate and energy policies including emissions trading market design, renewable energy support and trade measures.
- Investor response to climate related risks: implications of emerging policy, technology and legal risks for pricing, portfolio allocation and engagement in capital markets.
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