Joël Christoph – NexGen Global Forum

​Joël Christoph graduated from University College London with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He wrote his thesis on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on employment. During his studies, Joël was a member of his university’s Model United Nations Team, receiving highest honors at U.K. and U.S. conferences. He is a winner of the 2019 ‘Open Doors’ International Olympiad in Economics and his essay on Ethics and Workplace Automation received the first prize in the UK-wide IBE Essay Competition’s undergraduate category.

Before enrolling at Tsinghua-SAIS, he worked in London for a research consultancy specializing in global energy markets, on an international infrastructure project connecting Austria to Russia by rail and a strategy consultancy analyzing British and German migration data. Joël has also been a dance teacher and performer, a teaching assistant for undergraduate economics and German courses and a student fellow in the UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education.
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Joël’s academic interests include the economic foundations of international security, global governance of public goods, technological competition among great powers and international and comparative political economy. Besides his native French and Japanese, he speaks Dutch, English, German, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.