Stéphane Hallegatte

Stéphane Hallegatte is a lead economist with the Climate Change Group of the World Bank. He joined the World Bank in 2012 after 10 years of academic research in environmental economics and climate science for Météo-France, the Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement, and Stanford University. His research interests include the economics of natural disasters and risk management, climate change adaptation, urban policy and economics, climate change mitigation, and green growth. He was the team leader for the World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan and a lead author of the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is the author of dozens of articles published in international journals in multiple disciplines and of several books, including Green Economy and the Crisis: 30 Proposals for a More Sustainable France, Risk Management: Lessons from the Storm Xynthia, and Natural Disasters and Climate Change: An Economic Perspective. He also recently led the World Bank reports Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty, Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters, and Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity. Hallegatte holds engineering degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and the Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie (Toulouse), a master’s degree in meteorology and climatology from the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse) and a PhD in economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).