Michael Jakob is a fellow with the MCC research project “Public Economics for the Global Commons.” His research interests include: climate policy (especially in developing countries), economic growth and welfare, as well as infrastructure policy. Before joining MCC, he spent more than five years as a PhD student and postdoctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Michael has a PhD in economics from the Technical University of Berlin and degrees in physics, economics, and international relations from universities in Munich, St Gallen, and Geneva. Besides science, he is very much interested in methods to reflect on our joint responsibility for a sustainable approach to deal with global environmental change. In particular, he is curious to develop skills to better understand how, for example, literature and theater could help us have a public discourse on where we are heading as a society and how we can democratically agree on any course of action.