My work focuses on global inequality and ecological transitions.
I am a tenured Associate Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, based at the Center for Research on Social Inequalities and affiliated with the Department of Economics. I am also Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics.
Lucas Chancel, Philipp. Bothe, Tancrèe Voituriez. Climate Inequality Report 2023. World Inequality Lab.
Synthesis of recent studies on global climate inequalities and proposal to finance climate investments in the global South. Report written b Key findings covered by the Financial Times, the Guardian, Time, Le Monde, El Pais…
The World Inequality Report 2022 provides the most up-to-date data on global income and wealth inequalities and presents new findings on global gender and climate change inequalities.
“Read this report, shout out its messages, find ways to act upon them.” Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
Published in English by Harvard University Press, in French by Le Seuil. Available open access online.
More information [Release on 7 December 2021]
Selection of best books in economics – Financial Times
Selection of best science books – Nature
“An original perspective on the two greatest challenges of our times” – Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Série de conférence à Séoul, à l’occasion de la “Seoul Stepping Stone Income Conference” et à l’Université Yonsei.
Presentation on wealth inequality and climate change
Intervention on wealth inequality, taxation and climate investment needs
Interviewed by Time magazine on climate finance. Read the article.