Mr. Vikrant Panwar

Vikrant is a lead specialist on risk and resilience finance in the Global Risks and Resilience programme at ODI Global, working primarily on disaster and climate risk financing and economics of disasters and climate change. His work covers: instrument evaluation and strategy development for climate and disaster risk finance and insurance (CDRFI); assessment and finance for loss and damage; the design and political economy analysis of premium subsidies for climate insurance; assessment of protection gap and impact metrics for CDRFI products; anticipatory action finance; climate-related theory of change and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning framework development; cost-benefit analyses of in investing resilience; and tracking climate and development finance. He has experience in researching macro-fiscal implications of disasters and other climate risks at sovereign and sub-sovereign levels, including estimation of direct and indirect economic and non-economic impact of disasters and physical climate risks, and econometric analysis and actionable research on risk financing and DRM. He has experience of working with government institutions in developing countries and private sector organisations operating in the risk finance and resilient infrastructure space. Vikrant has a doctoral degree in economics with specialisation in estimating macro-fiscal impacts of disasters and policy research on disaster risk financing strategy. He also carries a Master’s degree with finance major. Vikrant has multiple publications under his name published in peer-reviewed journals and books.