Dr Nicola Ranger is Executive Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Systemic Resilience, Programme Leader, Resilience and International Development at the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Greening Finance and Investment.
Nicola specialises in climate and environmental risk analytics, scenario analysis, financial and fiscal resilience, and the role of public and private finance in sustainability and resilience. She has almost two decades of experience in climate change science and economics and sustainable finance. Nicola joined Oxford from the World Bank’s Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice, where she worked with financial institutions, Ministries of Finance, Central Banks and regional institutions to strengthen financial resilience and implement systems and processes to strengthen national and global resilience to shocks and crises. Prior to this, she held roles at the UK Department for International Development, the London School of Economics and Political Science, HM Treasury, Risk Management Solutions and Defra. Nicola has written more than 30 book chapters and peer-reviewed articles and contributed to major reports including the UK National Climate Change Risk Assessment, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. Nicola completed her postdoctoral research in climate economics and policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a doctorate in Atmospheric Physics from Imperial College London.