Mark Bernhofen

Mark Bernhofen is an expert on climate risk analytics working at the Earth Capital Nexus at the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. At the LSE he leads research on integrating physical climate risk and adaptation within credit rating methodologies: from the sovereign to the project level. Mark’s research also explores the ethical and responsible use of climate data for decision making. 

Mark holds appointments at both the LSE and the University of Oxford, where he is a postdoctoral researcher in the Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems. At Oxford, Mark leads research on climate risk to critical infrastructure in developing countries and explores how social vulnerability data can be integrated within resilient infrastructure appraisal methodologies to ensure just adaptation. Mark’s background is in engineering, and he received his PhD from the University of Leeds in 2022 for a thesis on global flood risk modelling.