Graciela Chichilnisky

Graciela Chichilnisky is an Argentine American mathematical economist and an authority on climate change. She is a professor of economics at Columbia University.

Chichilnisky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the daughter of Russian160Jewish immigrants. She had a child during high160school. In July 1966 a military coup occurred the Argentine military violently closed scientific160faculties at the University of Buenos160Aires on Julyduring La Noche de los Bastones Largos . Without having any undergraduate degree, Chichilnisky matriculated in the doctoral program in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was supported by a fellowship from the Ford Foundation. She then moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 1968, where she completed her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1971, writing her thesis under the supervision of Jerrold E. Marsden. She then earned a second Ph.D. in economics in 1976 under the supervision of Grard Debreu, a mathematical economist and Nobel laureate.

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