Daniel Driscoll is a political economist of climate change. His work lies at the intersection of decarbonization, economic policy and finance. 

Before joining the faculty at UVA, Driscoll was a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He has held visiting researcher positions at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, and at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, France. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. 

Driscoll’s research has appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including Social Problems, Journal of Common Market Studies, Comparative Politics, Socius and Social Science Quarterly. It has received attention from the Financial Times and Bloomberg and he has received external funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy and the Institute of European Studies. 

He is currently writing a book titled Why Carbon Taxes Failed, and outside of academia, he has worked with various think tanks, organizations and governments.  In the upcoming academic year, Driscoll will teach “The Political Economy of Climate Change” and “Introduction to Graduate Statistics.”