Mook Bangalore is an assistant professor of environmental policy at the School of Public Policy. His research focuses on the relationship between environment and development and explores how households across the Global South are affected by environmental change and the climate crisis. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Princeton University and worked within the Climate Change Chief Economist Office and Policy Unit at the World Bank. He received his doctoral degree from the London School of Economics and holds an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University.