JAECHEOL LEE

I am currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Climate Impact Lab, a dynamic collaboration between academia and industry aimed at assessing the social costs of climate change. As a member of the Coastal Analysis team, I assess the heightened risks of wind and flood damage in coastal regions due to climatic changes.

I earned my Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley and hold a B.A. in Economics with a double major in Spanish from Seoul National University, where I also completed a Master's degree in International Studies.

My research primarily addresses environmental and urban economics, with specific focus areas including:

1. Coastal Challenges: Analyzing the heightened risks from wind and flood events in coastal areas due to climatic changes and assessing the societal impacts shoreline protection measures such as beach nourishment.

2. Air Pollution: Investigating the public health impacts of transboundary air pollution and the effectiveness of air quality alerts.  

3. Consumer Welfare: Analyzing changes in consumer welfare resulting from governmental policies, using recent advancements in consumption expenditure data.

I have been selected as a Beijer Young Scholar by the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. I am a grantee of the 2017 Fulbright Scholarship, part of the Fulbright Scholar Program sponsored by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.