Gregor Semieniuk

About

My research focuses on structural change and economic development in the context of climate change and its mitigation — often through the lens of economic inequality. I am a Fellow at the Institute of Advances Studies Berlin in 2026-27. From 2023 to 2025 I served as Senior Climate Change Economist at the World Bank.

24 peer-reviewed articles, four among the top 1% most-cited in their field · Ph.D. in Economics, New School for Social Research

Research themes

• Stranded assets. Slow capital-stock turnover and who bears the losses of a fast low-carbon transition.
• Energy demand. Rising energy needs as developing countries industrialize and grow.
• Inequality. The unequal distribution of climate change’s costs, benefits, and mitigation burdens.

Selected publications

• Best of times, worst of times: record fossil fuel profits, inflation and inequality
  with Weber, Weaver, Wasner, Braun et al. Energy Research and Social Science, 127, 104221, 2025.
• Stranded fossil-fuel assets translate to major losses for investors in advanced economies
  with Holden, Mercure, Salas, Pollitt et al. Nature Climate Change, 12, 532–538, 2022.
• Plausible energy demand patterns in a growing global economy with climate policy
  with Taylor, Rezai & Foley. Nature Climate Change, 11, 313–318, 2021.