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St¨¦phane Hallegatte, Senior Climate Change Adviser, World Bank

St¨¦phane Hallegatte

Senior Climate Change Adviser, Climate Change

St¨¦phane Hallegatte is a Senior Climate Change Adviser at the World Bank. He joined the World Bank in 2012 after 10 years of academic research in environmental economics and climate science for M¨¦t¨¦o-France, the Centre International de Recherche sur l¡¯Environnement et le D¨¦veloppement, 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.

Mr. Hallegatte was a lead author of the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 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 co-led the World Bank reports , published in 2012 and Decarbonizing Development in 2015, and was member of the core writing team of the 2014 Most recently, he led the World Bank reports Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty, , and

He was the team leader for the World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan, a large internal coordination exercise to determine and explain how the Group will support countries in their implementation of the Paris Agreement.

Mr. Hallegatte holds engineering degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and the Ecole Nationale de la M¨¦t¨¦orologie (Toulouse), a master's degree in meteorology and climatology from the Universit¨¦ Paul Sabatier (Toulouse) and a Ph.D in economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

St¨¦phane Hallegatte
shallegatte@worldbank.org

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