Nicolas Schneider is a Senior Research Engineer - Macroeconomist at the EDHEC Climate Institute. His focus includes the development and implementation of physical climate risk assessment methodologies to support the needs of EDHEC ventures; and is involved in the climate scenarios group as well. Before that, he worked under the management of Riccardo Rebonato on the Research Programme 'Impact of Climate Change on Asset Prices and Investment Management'.

Nicolas holds a PhD from Boston University, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), and MSc degrees from both the London School of Economics and Paris-Panthéon Sorbonne University.

He has co-authored over a dozen peer-reviewed articles and has taught at Harvard University’s Department of General Education and the Quantitative Methods Seminar at the Oxford Smith School. He has also consulted for the New York City Mayor's Office of Climate and served as a fellow in the Coupled Human and Earth Systems Program of the U.S. Department of Energy’s MultiSector Dynamics Modeling Initiative.