Current Research Areas: social studies of finance, energy politics and policy, history of economic thought, economic history, intellectual history, quantification, governance
Connor Chung studies how financial thought shapes and is shaped by the social world. His current research focuses on the past, present, and future of climate finance — and on what is at stake when we try to understand, quantify, and price the risks of a warming world.
He is also interested in public policy research, and in how historical analysis and social science research can inform our governance choices.
Before MIT, Connor worked as a financial analyst in the environmental space. He holds an AB summa cum laude from Harvard University, jointly in History of Science and Classics, and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in Economic and Social History.