Koko Warner
Senior Research Advisor – Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Loss and Damage
Climate Science and Impacts, Management Team
Dr Koko Warner is working with Climate Analytics as a Senior Research Advisor on climate impacts, adaptation and loss and damage.
She is an economist and interdisciplinary social scientist. Her work connects climate science, policy and finance to strengthen responses to climate impacts and risks as project Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s International Climate Observatory at Perry World House.
She is an IPCC lead author in the current assessment cycle, as well as in AR4, AR5 and AR6 cycles. Previously, she directed the Global Data Institute at the International Organization for Migration, led work on loss and damage, adaptation and indigenous peoples and local communities at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and headed research at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security. She also co-founded and was Executive Director of the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative.
She received her PhD in economics from University of Vienna as a Fulbright Fellow while at IIASA.