Louison Cahen-Fourot is a post-doc researcher at the Institute for Ecological Economics of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien). He works in the fields of ecological macroeconomics and political economy of capitalism and the environment on topics such as: the climate-finance nexus; the monetary system and monetary policies in a sustainability perspective; the economic and financial impacts of a low-carbon transition; the diversity of capitalism and the social relation to the environment; and the interdependencies and interconnections between socio-ecological metabolism and socio-economic dynamics of contemporary economies.
He holds a PhD in Economics from Sorbonne Paris Nord University. Before that, he completed master’s degrees in ‘Sustainable development in transition and developing countries’ from University of Auvergne’s CERDI and in ‘International economics, finance and regulation’ from Sorbonne Paris Nord.