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.
Background
Mark is an engineer by training. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Leeds (2022), where his thesis was a NERC funded fellowship that focussed on evaluating and applying global flood risk models. He has an MEng (First Class Honours) in Civil and Structural Engineering, also from Leeds, and spent a year studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Mark has worked as a Short-Term Consultant at the World Bank, on projects ranging from modelling the effectiveness of city-scale flood interventions in Brasil to contributing to flagship reports on water risk. He continues to work as a consultant with multiple institutions on projects related to climate financial risk.
Research Interests
- Responsible and ethical use of climate risk data
- Climate impact and adaptation modelling
- Financial and macroeconomic impacts of climate extremes
- Flood risk in humanitarian and displacement contexts
- Climate risk inequality and just adaptation
- Decision making under uncertainty