Dr Nicola Ranger is Director of the Resilient Planet Finance Lab at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Executive Director of the Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Programme, co-Director of the UKRI Integrating Finance and Biodiversity Programme and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking of the Oxford Martin School.
Nicola brings 20 years' experience across government, IFIs, private sector and academia and holds multiple advisory roles, including for the FCDO and the European Commission's High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Investment in Emerging and Developing Economies. She works with governments, Central Banks, regulators, financial institutions and international organisations to provide analytics and evidence to inform finance and policy at all scales. Her research covers climate, nature, resilience, food, water and the SDGs with a strong risk analytics, finance, macro and public policy lens.
Prior to joining Oxford, Nicola held senior roles in the World Bank and DFID (now FCDO), as well as HM Treasury. Nicola also has a professional background in insurance and catastrophe risk modelling. 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