Aurélien Saussay is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics at the London School of Economics, based at the Grantham Research Institute. He currently holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2022-2025), and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Kennedy School during the Autumn Semester of 2024.

His research explores the interaction between economic inequality and climate change mitigation policies, with a particular focus on the employment impacts of the transition to Net Zero. He seeks to empirically estimate the effects of climate change mitigation on economic agents, with the aim of improving the design of decarbonisation policies.