cfa
The team
CFA
Climate Finance Academy Team
The Climate Finance Academy started during corona time when academics met in the coffee corner and started discussing the need to bridge the gap between climate studies and the financial sector.
Since then, efforts have been put to start this network by contacting potential partners, selecting top talents nd developing new projects.
Meet the team
CORE TEAM
Professor
Prof. Wouter Botzen
Full Professor of Economics of Climate Change and Natural Disasters at the Department of Environmental Economics (IVM)
Member of the Sustainable Finance Lab.
Research interest: economic impacts and risks of climate change.
Professor
Prof. Dim Coumou
Full Professor of Climate Extremes & Societal Risk at the Department of Water and Climate Risks (IVM)
Senior Scientist Extreme Weather & Climate Change at KNMI.
Research interest: global warming and extreme weather events.
Dr.
Dr. Jan Brusselaers
Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Economics (IVM)
Affiliated to Antwerp University.
Research interest: Climate change mitigation and Circular Economy.
PhD candidates' team
MSc
MSc Daan van Ederen
External PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) and Achmea.
Research interest: Assessing the impact of natural catastrophes on non-life insurance, mortgages and financial markets.
MSc
MSc Guillermo García Álvarez
PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Naturance EU project.
Research interest: Assessment of nature-based solutions related to reducing climate risk for insurance.
MSc
MSc María Fonseca Cerda
PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the RED&BLUE project.
Research interest: climate risk assessment of current and future wind and hail storm events, how they affect urban areas, communities and investments, and the available adaptation options to reduce the risks.
MSc
MSc Michiel Ingels
PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM)
Research interest: Assessing the feasibility of climate risk insurance under different climate change and socio-economic scenarios, with an emphasis on insurance for the commercial sector and indirect damages associated with climate risk.
MSc
MSc Ruud Sperna Weiland
External PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI), and Balance Sheet Manager at Rabobank
Research interest: Persistent summer atmospheric circulation patterns, how these originate and how these evolve over the course of a summer.
MSc
MSc Thijs Endendijk
PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the REACHOUT project.
Research interest: Assessment of physical climate risks for real estate markets and investments and what can be done to reduce these risks.
MSc
MSc Vylon Ooms
External PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) and Verbond van Verzekeraars
Research interest: Assessment of how insurers can incentivize climate risk reduction actions of their policy holders. Linking climate adaptation to insurance.
MSc
MSc Abimael Candraditya
PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the INSUREADAPT project.
Research interest: Theoretical and empirical analysis of household and small-business decision-making on insurance and risk reduction behavior in response to multi-hazard climate risks.
MSc
MSc Alex de Vries
External PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), data scientist at De Nederlandsche Bank and founder of Digiconomist.
Research interest: Assessing the environmental impact of emerging technologies such as blockchain cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence.
MSc
MSc Carolina Ferman Carral
PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the INSUREADAPT project.
Research interest: How behavioral dynamics and multi-hazard risks interact with insurance systems and different policies to shape climate adaptation strategies for households and businesses.
MSc
MSc Patricia von Mellenthin
PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the INSUREADAPT project.
Research interest: Investigating behavioural and financial interventions to support individual adaptation towards multi-hazard climate risks through incentivised economic experiments.
MSc
MSc Marjolein Ribberink
PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the STORM-EX project.
Research interest: Statistical modelling of transitioning and post-tropical cyclones to better understand the risks and hazards they pose, in both current and future climates.
CLIMATE FINANCE ACADEMY
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