Description
Catherine Gamper leads the OECD’s work on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, overseeing a programme that supports governments in managing climate risks and developing and implementing increasingly ambitious adaptation policies. She has played a leading role in establishing climate adaptation as a strategic area of OECD policy engagement, creating and steering the OECD Task Force on Climate Change Adaptation, which brings together policymakers, experts and international organisations to advance adaptation policy and practice across countries.
An economist by training, Catherine has nearly two decades of experience working at the intersection of climate change, disaster risk management and public policy. Her work focuses on the economics of adaptation, resilience investment and public finance, and over the course of her career she has worked with governments across OECD and partner countries to help them strengthen their capacity to anticipate, manage and recover from climate-related risks.
Prior to her current role, she led the OECD’s work on disaster risk prevention and resilience. Before joining the OECD, she worked at the World Bank on local governance and disaster risk management and conducted research on climate adaptation and environmental economics in Austria. Catherine holds a PhD in Public Economics from the University of Innsbruck.
