I am an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. I received a PhD in political science from Columbia University in 2022 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization & Governance at Princeton University in 2022–23.

I study the political economy of climate change and decarbonization, with associated interests in global economic governance and the politics of gender, race, and ethnicity. My work on these topics is published in leading academic outlets including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and World Politics, with commentary in The Economist and The Washington Post and coverage in Nature Climate Change.

I have received the American Political Science Association’s Fiona McGillivray Award for Best Paper in Political Economy, Sage Paper Prize for Best Paper in Comparative Politics, Best Paper Award in Democracy and Autocracy, and Virginia M. Walsh Award for Best Dissertation in Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics; as well as the IPUMS USA Research Award for Best Published Research.

My research has been supported by generous funding from the Center for Science and Society, Charles Koch Foundation, Columbia Experimental Laboratory for Social Sciences, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Endeavor Foundation, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, LSE Research and Impact Support Fund, President’s Council of Cornell Women, and President’s Global Innovation Fund.

I can be reached at n.zucker@lse.ac.uk and @noahzucker / @noahzucker.com (Bluesky).