Dr Nicola Ranger is Deputy Director of the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment and Head of Climate and Environmental Risk Research, Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme within the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Nicola has almost two decades of experience working across government, industry and academia. She has previously held positions at the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development (now FCDO) on disaster risk finance. She has a background in climate and catastrophe risk modelling, insurance, economics, public finance and policy, including roles at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Risk Management Solutions and HM Treasury.