Amine Charles-Louis Ouazad

I am Associate professor at HEC Montréal‘s Department of Economics. My research was cited in Congressional hearings, in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CBS, Bloomberg, Politico, etc. I serve on the scientific and awards committees of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, and the scientific committee of the Urban Economics Association. Previously I was an associate professor at Ecole polytechnique, France, an associate professor at Rutgers Business School, New Jersey, and an assistant professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. In April 2020, I was appointed DLA Piper Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. I was a Senior Fellow of Johns Hopkins’ 21st Century Cities Initiative. I taught over 5,000 students, across Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates, in the EMBA, MBA, PhD, MSc, BComm and BSc undergraduate programs. Email me

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Presented the new version of “Time Consistent Infrastructure Investments: Optimal Flood Protection Policies in Spatial Equilibrium”, discussed by Meredith Fowley and discussed her paper at the Toronto Climate Economics Meeting, organized by Stefan Heiblich. Paper Slides.
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Presented the new version of “Adaptation Using Financial Markets: Climate Risk Diversification through Securitization” (June 2025) at the conference organized by UBC’s Ali Lazrak and Bilal Islah. Paper and Slides >
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Presented the new version (initial version January 2024) of the paper “Equilibrium Multiplicity: A Systematic Approach using Homotopies, with an Application to Chicago” at the Canadian Urban Economics meeting at the Rotman School of Business, organized by William Strange. Paper.
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Panelist at the Federal Reserve of Chicago on The Availability and Impact of Public and Private Funding Following a Natural Disaster. Register here
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Presenting Time Consistent Infrastructure Investments: Optimal Flood Protection Policies in Spatial Equilibrium at Humboldt University, Berlin in March at the annual meeting of the Urban Economics Assocation.
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Coauthor Prof. Tandel presenting ``Flooding the Market: Weather Events and Property Values’’ with Tom Bearpark (Princeton) and Ashwin Rode (Chicago) Link