About
I am a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in the Equity and Justice research group and Assistant Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). My research focuses on environmental, health, and development economics. I am currently focused on how the financial sector, and insurance in particular, can support climate goals and the adoption of nature-based solutions. As part of this agenda, I am working on the NATURANCE project- “Insurance for Nature and Nature for Insurance.” My other work has addressed the economic implications of climate change for labor supply, inequality, and international conflict, and how these can be mitigated by policy. I was previously a Research Associate at the Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance at King’s Business School, King’s College London. I have also been a Visiting Climate Change Graz Post Doc Fellow at the University of Graz, a postdoc at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) in Milan, and Adjunct Professor at IE University in Madrid. I completed my Ph.D. in Sustainable Development at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 2019. I graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University where I received the Applied Mathematics Faculty Award.
Recent Work:
“Climate Change, International Migration, and Interstate Conflict“, Cattaneo, C. and Foreman, T. Ecological Economics. 2023.
“Governance of Sustainable Finance,” Chalmers, A.; Klingler-Vidra, R.; Aikman, D; Kuralbayeva, K,; and Foreman, T. Journal of Financial Transformation. June 2024.
Upcoming Presentations:
Society for Environmental Law and Economics 17th Annual Meeting – “Costly disgorgement: quantifying the potential liability to financial institutions due to climate-related misinformation,” with David Aikman, Yael Lifshitz, and Mattias Nilsson
Previous Presentations:
15th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics – “Insurance to support nature-based solutions: opportunities and constraints,” with JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer, Jenan Irshaid, and Juliette Martin