Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford’s Center on Food Security and the Environment. His research combines tools from economics and Earth science to answer questions related to our management of the global commons. His postdoctoral work focuses on interactions between environmental exposures and human health. His current projects quantify the health impacts of international air pollution flows; examine how the joint impacts of heat and humidity affect health across the lifespan; explore how weather adaptation in railway systems leads to societal costs through increased congestion; assess how landfilled waste affects infant health via water quality; and investigate how wildfire smoke affects clean air policy.

Originally from San Diego, Andrew earned a BA in Political Economy and an MPP at UC Berkeley and a PhD in Sustainable Development at Columbia University. Andrew previously served in the Biden Administration as a staff economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, where he focused on environmental policy. He has also worked at Habitat for Humanity, USAID, and NextGen Policy on housing, global development, and energy policy.