Description
Shardul Agrawala is Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division at the OECD Environment Directorate where he leads the work on environment-economy modelling, empirical analysis, circular economy, and trade and environment. He has led flagship OECD publications including the Environmental Outlook on the Triple Planetary Crisis (2025), the Global Plastics Outlook (2022) and the Global Materials Resources Outlook (2018). At the OECD since 2002, he has previously served as Senior Advisor to the OECD Secretary General, Senior Economist Climate Change, and Co-ordinator of New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC).
Dr. Agrawala received his PhD from Princeton University, and has previously held research positions at Princeton, Columbia and Harvard universities. He currently serves on the Expert Group of the High Level Task Force of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), and has previously served as a Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) for the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of Working Groups II and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
