Amir Jina Assistant Professor Contact Email Amir Jina Curriculum Vitae (PDF) Visit Professional Website Website About Amir Jina is an Assistant Professor at Harris Public Policy whose research focuses on measuring the impacts of weather and climate change on low-income communities to understand how they can best adapt. This research combines economics with climate and environmental science, and has involved in India, Bangladesh, and Kenya. Amir is the co-director of the Human-Centered Weather Forecast Initiative at the University of Chicago - which created and disseminated AI weather forecasts to tens of millions of people in 2025 - and co-leads the AI for Climate Initiative. Amir is the chair of the AIM for Scale technical panel on weather and climate services - which has generated commitments of more than $1 billion dollars to invest in improved forecast dissemination to benefit farmers in low-income countries - and a founding member of the Climate Impact Lab - an interdisciplinary collaboration examining the socioeconomic impacts of climate change around the world. Amir received a Ph.D. in Sustainable Development and M.A. in Climate and Society, both from Columbia University, B.A.s in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from Trinity College, Dublin, and previously worked with the Red Cross/Red Crescent in South Asia.