Nicola Ranger
Dr Nicola Ranger works as a specialist on crisis and disaster risk financing for the World Bank. Her research is on climate and disaster risk management, with a focus on multi-hazard risk assessment and how to make decisions under uncertainty, including forecast-based early action, insurance and climate-resilient development.
Background
Nicola formerly worked as a senior adviser for the UK Department for International Development, focused on policy, analysis and delivering aid programmes on disaster and climate resilience, with a focus on early warning systems, risk financing and early humanitarian action.
Prior to this, Nicola was a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Adaptation and Development at the Grantham Research Institute, LSE.
Nicola joined LSE in March 2009 from the insurance catastrophe modelling firm, Risk Management Solutions Ltd (RMS), where she was a Senior Research Analyst on climate change and disaster risk. Previous to this, she held positions as a scientific advisor at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and as a Policy Analyst for HM Treasury, where she was part of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and later worked on international climate policy.
Nicola holds a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from Imperial College London and a first-class honours degree in Physics from the University of Warwick.
Research interests
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Crisis and Disaster Risk Financing
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Climate-resilient development
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Multi-hazard risk assessment
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Decision making under uncertainty
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Risk communication and behaviour
Research
Research - 2013
Official development assistance (ODA) currently totals around $130 billion USD per year, an order of magnitude greater than international climate... Read more
Nicola Ranger, Alex Harvey and Su-Lin Garbett-Shiels. Forthcoming. Read more
Abstract Over the past decade, the increase in insurance demand in the BRICS has been a key driver of global... Read more
Research - 2012
Reference Ranger, N., and Fisher, S. November 2012. The challenges of climate change and exposure growth for disaster risk management in... Read more
Reference Ranger, N., et al. November 2012. Reducing risks of future disasters: priorities for decision makers. Final Project Report. The Government Office... Read more
Abstract Current projections of long-term trends in Atlantic hurricane activity due to climate change are deeply uncertain, both in magnitude... Read more
Research - 2011
Working Paper 63 Abstract Over the past decade, growth in insurance demand in the BRICS economies has been a key... Read more
Working Paper 62 Abstract Multi-year insurance has been proposed as a tool to incentivise policyholders to invest in property level... Read more
Working Paper 61 Abstract Insurance demand is driven by many factors, but for the emerging economies, one of the most... Read more
Working Paper 51 Abstract Current projections of long-term trends in Atlantic hurricane activity due to climate change are deeply uncertain,... Read more
Working Paper 50 Abstract The series of devastating natural disasters around the world during the past few years has raised... Read more
Abstract This paper presents a first estimate of the exposure of the world’s large port cities (population exceeding one million... Read more
Abstract This paper presents a first estimate of the exposure of the world’s large port cities (population exceeding one million... Read more
Abstract Managing risks from extreme events will be a crucial component of climate change adaptation. In this study, we demonstrate... Read more
Policy
Policy - 2023
This publication forms the chair’s report for the Independent Expert Advisory Group convened by the Climate Change Committee to support... Read more
Policy - 2013
Headline issue In 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire. Detailed discussions are already underway to inform the post-2015 development... Read more
Headline issue The economic costs of natural disasters have continued to rise since the early 1980s and are expected to... Read more
This report examines CO2 budgets and the growing ‘carbon bubble’, as well as its effects on the economy and global... Read more
An Independent National Adaptation Programme for England Read more
Policy - 2011
Extreme weather events represent the earliest, and in some places most significant, threats to the most vulnerable countries that are... Read more
Climate change is increasingly altering the pattern of climate-related risks. Developing countries, and in particular least developed countries, will be... Read more
Policy - 2010
Headline issue Climate change is one of the most significant challenges we face. It will impact the UK population, environment... Read more
Executive summary The Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are contemplating a range of goals... Read more
Policy - 2009
Mitigating climate change through reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: the science and economics of future paths for global annual emissions Read more
Events
Events - 2021
News
News - 2013
Senior Research Fellow, Nicola Ranger, produced this topic guide to stimulate thinking about two major issues: first, how climate change may alter the long-term outcomes of development interventions today, and, second, how such interventions can be better designed from the outset to have outcomes that enhance climate resilience and are themselves robust and adaptable to long-term stresses, like climate change. Read more
News - 2012
Dr Nicola Ranger argues that to tackle the unique challenges of climate change and growth, we also need to change the way... Read more
News - 2011
The first set of reports from public bodies setting out what they are doing to adapt to the impacts of... Read more
News - 2010
The Conservative party conference in Birmingham may be the focus of UK politics this week, but government representatives will be... Read more