Description
Stéphane Hallegatte is the Chief Economic Adviser of the World Bank Climate Department. He is the author of dozens of articles published in international journals in multiple disciplines and of several books and World Bank reports including Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty in 2015 and Rising to the Challenge: Success Stories and Strategies for Achieving Climate Adaptation and Resilience in 2024. More recently, he has supervised the new World Bank Group diagnostic, the Country Climate and Development Reports, and has co-led the CCDRs for Turkey and Brazil. Mr. Hallegatte holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and a Ph.D in economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
