Bio

Johannes Stroebel is the David S. Loeb Professor of Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business and the Director of the NYU Stern Climate Finance Initiative. His research spans climate finance, household finance, the economics of social networks, macroeconomics, and real estate economics. He co-developed the Social Connectedness Index and the Social Capital Atlas, large-scale measures of social networks built using data from Facebook. His work also includes research on hedging climate change risk, the economics of biodiversity loss, and the determinants of household financial decisions.

Professor Stroebel was awarded the 2023 Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association, given every two years to the top financial economist under the age of 40. He has won numerous other awards, including the Calvó-Armengol Prize, the AQR Asset Management Institute Young Researcher Prize, and the Brattle Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Finance. He has also earned an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Economics. He has served in editorial roles at the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Finance: Insights and Perspectives.

Professor Stroebel teaches classes on climate finance at the undergraduate, MBA, doctoral, and executive education levels. He regularly provides advice to governments and firms on managing their financial risks from climate change. Among other roles, he was a member of the Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), as well as a member of a Working Group on Extreme Weather and Financial Risks at the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). He is the Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution.

Professor Stroebel read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Merton College, Oxford, where he won the Hicks and Webb Medley Prize for the best performance in economics. In 2012, he earned a Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University. Before joining NYU Stern in 2013, Professor Stroebel was the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.