Jason Wong

Jason Wong is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sustainable Development at Columbia University and a Research Affiliate in the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jason is interested in the impact of technology and infrastructure in regional socioeconomic outcomes and environmental decision making. His dissertation focuses on improving individual carbon offsets, economic impacts of aviation connectivity, and climate change impacts on aviation. He also works on electricity infrastructure and energy poverty in India. In 2016-2017, he is a National Academies of Sciences Transportation Research Board Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Graduate Research Awardee. He won the 2017 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by Graduate Student Instructors, the highest teaching honor bestowed upon a graduate student at Columbia.

Jason graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy, a B.A. in Germanic Studies, a Certificate in Science, Technology, and Society, and a minor in Statistics. During his undergraduate studies, Jason was a College Park Scholar in Science and Global Change, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ernest F. Hollings Scholar and a German Academic Exchange Service Undergraduate Scholar.

Currently, Jason is ISEP’s Academic Lead for our program in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Interests

• Aviation and Regional Economies
• Environmental Economics
• Development Policy
• Economics of Language

Education

• Ph.D., Sustainable Development, 2019
• M.Phil., Sustainable Development, 2017
• M.A., Sustainable Development, 2016 Columbia University
• B.S., Environmental Science & Policy (Environmental Economics), 2013
• B.A., Germanic Studies, 2013 University of Maryland, College Park