Professor Ingmar Schumacher

Ingmar Schumacher

The Department of Economics
Professor of Economics

Contact details

Email
i.schumacher@bham.ac.uk
Address
University House, Birmingham Business School
Department of Economics
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Birmingham
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Professor Ingmar Schumacher is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Economics at the Birmingham Business School, within the College of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. He served as a Professor of Economics at IPAG Business School until 2023. His research primarily centres on environmental economics, with a particular focus on climate change, climate finance, migration, attitudes towards nature, social and moral norms, and behavioural nudging.

Professor Schumacher is also a co-founder of the Sustainable Future Policy Lab and an associate researcher at the Chair for Energy and Prosperity at École Polytechnique in Paris.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Economics, Université de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • M.Sc. in Economics, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
  • B.Sc. in Economics, University of Essex, United Kingdom

Biography

Professor Ingmar Schumacher holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Université de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, and an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics. Prior to his role at IPAG Business School, he worked as an economist at the Central Bank of Luxembourg and held a postdoctoral position at École Polytechnique in Paris.

His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the European Economic Review, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Oxford Economic Papers. He currently serves as the Managing Editor of Environmental & Resource Economics.

Professor Schumacher also writes at  and contributes to the . He regularly engages with the public through s, , and by offering .

Teaching

  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Economics, Birmingham Business School, College of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Professor of Environmental Economics, IPAG Business School, Paris, France
  • Post-doctorant, Department of Economics, École Polytechnique, Paris, France
  • Post-doctorant, Department of Economics, University of Trier, Germany

Research

  • Environmental Economics
  • Economic Growth
  • Cultural Economics

Other activities

  • Managing Editor at Environmental & Resource Economics
  • Editor at Sustainable Future Policy Lab
  • Research Associate at the Chair for Energy and Prosperity, École Polytechnique, Paris
  • Co-editor at Environmental & Resource Economics
  • Member of Nuclear Consulting Group
  • Economist, Central Bank of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • FNR Post-doctoral Fellowship, CREA, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg