Tara James – Climate Risk and Agricultural Insurance Specialist, INSURED/IFAD

Tara joined the INSURED team in 2019 with 10 years of experience in risk transfer for geographical and weather hazards in the context of the changing climate. From 2010 to 2015 she was a Facility Supervisor for the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC), the world’s first multi-country parametric risk pool.  She provides technical and strategic advice for INSURED’s work on climate risk insurance in over 15 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America.