Soenke Kreft leads the work of the MCII hosted at UNU-EHS. His mission is to increase the reach of (financial) protection instruments towards climate affected communities.
He oversees activities of the organization in areas of policy and public sector strategy, risk analytics and climate risk insurance implementation. Soenke has a background in public sector policy, climate policy and global change management, and extensive experience with influencing global policy regimes and global norm setting. He has field experience in creating and strengthening risk sharing and management in more than 20 countries.
Soenke is co-chairing the Impact Working Group of the InsuResilience Global Partnership, and he is also an appointed expert to the UN convened Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management. He is teaching in the international MSc Programme “Geography of Environmental Risks and Human Security” on topics related insurance related approaches to manage increasing climate related disaster exposures.
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Teresa Arce Mojica works as Project Associate at MCII, supporting Climate Risk Analytics efforts in proposal writing as well as coordinating the GIS analysis and mapping activities in proposal writing and ongoing projects. Additionally, Teresa will be assisting in establishing a network of relevant stakeholders from the private and public sectors in Latin America, decision-makers, and research institutions, among others.
She has experience supporting background research/desk studies on flood and drought risk and adaptation, the collection of economic asset values, and the processing and analysis of data.
Teresa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Financial Administration and Systems from the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, and a dual Master’s in Science on Technology and Natural Resources Management in the Tropics & Subtropics from TH Koeln, Germany, and the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico. She is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Geography with the University of Passau, researching “The Use of Nature-based Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction”.
Uzabi is working as a Project Assistant in the Climate Analytics team implementing the Economics in Climate Adaptation (ECA) methodology in project countries with comprehensive desk research, data collection and analysis on climate risk. Additionally, she supports the team with report preparation, policy review and facilitating side events and workshops abroad.
Prior to this, Uzabi gained in-depth experience in an integrated resilience program focusing on climate-sensitive and asset creation, including watershed planning soil and water conservation within climate-sensitive regions of the Sahel. Additionally, she coordinated multiple projects on environmental impact assessment of energy projects, REDD implementation, environmental education, and disaster risk management within national and international organizations in Nepal.
Uzabi holds a Master's degree in Integrated Water Resources Management from TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences) and a Bachelor´s degree in Environmental Management from the School of Environmental Science and Management, Pokhara University, Nepal. Her research interests include Nature-based solutions, Climate Adaptation, and Disaster Risk Management.
Eike Behre is Project Manager at UNU-EHS and the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII). He is a member of the Climate Risk Analytics Team at MCII.
Mr. Behre has led the implementation of several climate risk analysis studies, including the Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA) Framework and the probabilistic model CLIMADA. In addition, his work concentrates on quantitative assessment methods for nature-based solutions that evaluate the risk-reduction potential of ecosystem services as well as their wider societal, environmental and economic benefits. A fundamental part of this work links environmental-economic accounting with disaster risk finance, seeking to understand enablers for mobilizing resources and needed investments into nature. Prior to MCII, Mr. Behre worked at GIZ on Advancing Climate Risk Insurance Plus (ACRI+), a BMU-funded project with a focus on applying the Integrated Climate Risk Management approach to the renewable energy sector in Barbados. In addition, Mr. Behre has gained valuable experience with forest carbon offset projects (REDD+) in Fiji and Viet Nam. Eike Behre holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Science from the Wageningen University and a Bachelor’s degree in Forest and Nature Conservation from Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences.
David is a Climate Risk Management Consultant with the MCII Analytics team. He specializes in Disaster Risk Management systems, climate adaptation and the intersections of natural resource management and post-conflict peacebuilding.
David hails from the mountainous lands of Colorado, USA, bringing with him a passion for preserving the natural world and addressing human and climate issues through holistic solutions. David has a background in water management, data management - such as the CDP database, supporting desk research for circular economy and urban-redensification projects, and field research into Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and peacebuilding efforts in Sudan. This background informs his research interests in rural, participative solutions to disaster mitigation and resilience in arid and hyper-arid lands - among others. Prior to joining UNU, David gained experience working across the globe from the US, to Germany, China, France and Israel/ Palestine. He has worked in a variety of fields including forestry, education, marketing and water management with a range of populations and stakeholders. He holds a Masters in Science in IWRM for the MENA region from Cologne Technical University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado State University where he studied Middle Eastern history, politics, religions, development, Arabic and conflict.
David believes in the shared humanity of cultures, and the epic nature of addressing the social and ecological impacts of climate change generation by generation, country by country, and project by project. When not working, David nerds out with DnD, and galivants to wild places to rock climb and hike.
Sinja Buri leads the Solutions and Practice Partnerships Team at MCII. She is working on facilitating the introduction of innovative climate disaster risk financing and insurance (CDRFI) solutions for the most vulnerable and low-income households as well as building the evidence base and closing existing knowledge gaps for the implementation of inclusive and sustainable CDRFI solutions.
Sinja has worked at the intersection of implementation and research throughout her career. Previously, she worked with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Senegal leading market and survey research work for IFC’s Financial Institutions Group covering Africa and the Middle East. She has over 10 years of working experience and extensive expertise in the areas of disaster risk finance, financial inclusion, results measurement and evaluation, applied research, and private sector development. She led and worked on projects across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific, and the Caribbean.
Sinja holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Mannheim University as well as a Master’s degree in International Economics from Georg-August-University Goettingen. Her research interests include the design of affordable and inclusive solutions that build the resilience of vulnerable communities to cope with climate risks, the impact of those solutions, and how to scale up their outreach.
Dr. David Daou is a Research Manager for Climate Risk Modelling at UNU-EHS, currently working on developing a drought model using machine learning tools, MATLAB and Python. This model falls under the Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA) methodology and its modelling tools (Climada). The drought model will then be embedded as a module in CLIMADA.
David holds a PhD. in Remote Sensing from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, where he applied a synergy of passive and active sensors to create a new inversion to yield atmospheric micro-physics parameters for aerosols and clouds, using data from the AERONET NASA network and CORALNet, the environment and climate change Canadian lidar network.
David previously worked at the Joint Research Centre (JRC-European Commission), as a scientific officer, on Raman Lidar, and as a PI for the Ispra EARLINET station.
David worked as a research scientist on future ESA-JAXA mission EarthCARE (satellite expected to be launch on 2020), developing the aerosols and Ice particles algorithms for the High Spectral Resolution Lidar onboard the satellite.
Recently Dr Daou was working as a data scientist as a freelancer using deep learning and machine learning tools, for developing models in the business and finance sector.
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Linda works as a Project Associate within MCII’s Solutions and Practice Partnerships team. She is primarily involved in the Pacific Insurance and Climate Adaptation Program (PICAP), as well as in the development and implementation of a new global program on Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance.
Linda holds a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the Sorbonne Institute of Development Studies and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Paris 8 University. Following her studies, she joined the United Nations Capital Development Fund’s (UNCDF) Dakar Regional Office for West and Central Africa as a Partnership Specialist. For two years, she supported UNCDF’s fundraising process at the regional level and took part in the rollout of several projects relating to the digital and financial inclusion of marginalized groups. Linda is a Certified Digital Finance Practitioner and is particularly interested in digitally enabled solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation. In 2022, she was nominated by the African Union-European Union Digital for Development (D4D) Hub to be one of ten young women participating in the #GirlsinD4D initiative.
Rachael Hansen is a Senior Project Associate at MCII hosted by UNU-EHS. Rachael manages the communications outreach for the MCII team including social media management, website management, and the compilation of the MCII Annual Report. In addition to managing MCII outreach, Rachael coordinates all of MCII's events.
Rachael completed her undergraduate degree at Utah State University in Journalism and Public Relations and her graduate degree at Edinburgh Napier University in International Event Management.
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Sarita is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, with a Postgraduate Diploma in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in the Caribbean, as well as a Master’s degree in Strategic Leadership and Management. She is specifically interested in the adoption of insurance-related solutions for climate change adaptation and disaster risk management in Small Island Developing States (SIDs).
She gained practical expertise and field experience in insurance through her work at Guardian Group Insurance Company in Trinidad and Tobago. Sarita also worked as a project assistant at the Association of Caribbean States on the 'Advancing Collaboration as a Strategy for Building Tourism Crisis Resilience in OCTs of the Greater Caribbean' project, executed by the Resilience, Sustainable Energy, and Marine Biodiversity Programme (RESEMBID), funded by Expertise France.
At MCII, Sarita works as a Project Associate in the Solutions team, supporting the Climate Risk Adaptation and Insurance in the Caribbean (CRAIC) Project. She provides assistance with project management, operational implementation, research, outreach, and publications.
Connor is working as a Project Assistant on the Climate Analytics team contributing to the application of the Economics in Climate Adaptation (ECA) methodology in project countries with comprehensive literature research, data collection, and climate risk analysis. His responsibilities include supporting the Analytics team with report preparation, policy review, and workshop coordination.
Prior to MCII, Connor worked for the Institute for Technology in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT) at the TH Köln where he contributed to the writing of an EU Horizons project proposal for Climate Change Adaptation in Southern Africa. Additionally, he has worked as a student assistant for ICLEI’s Climate Action Team, where he coordinated the joint CDP-ICLEI Track Database and was involved with the annual Climate Action Plan Analysis.
Connor is currently studying Natural Resources Management and Development at the ITT where he will soon earn his Master’s degree and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geology from the College of Engineering and Mines, University of North Dakota, USA. His research interests include Disaster Risk Management, Nature-Based Solutions, and Climate Change Adaptation.
Alexandra Mieth is Associate Project Manager at MCII. In her role as Policy Support of the V20 Secretariat, she is working on the V20 Group's financial protection agenda - especially on the V20 inputs to the Global Shield against Climate Risks, formerly InsuResilience Global Partnership. Additionally she manages the V20 and MCII contribution the V20 Sustainable Insurance Facility. She is part of MCII's Policy, Governance and Strategies Team, which aims to foster international cooperation, governance and system-building for climate and disaster risk financing and insurance solutions, while amplifying the voices and needs of climate vulnerable countries and communities.
Prior to joining MCII as Project Associate, Alexandra gained experience in climate policy while working on the topic of Human Mobility and Climate Change as intern at GIZ, as working student in evaluation of climate change adaptation and residual risks at the Competence Centre Methods of Deval, as portfolio management and external relations intern at GIZ China, as working student in the climate protection division at Stiftung Mercator.
Alexandra graduated with a Master's Degree in International Relations and Development Policy from University of Duisburg-Essen and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from University of Freiburg.
Magdalena Mirwald is a Project Associate at MCII. She is the focal point of the Multi-Actor Partnership on climate and disaster risk financing and preparedness in the context of the InsuResilience Global Partnership project. As part of the Policy, Governance and Strategies team, Magdalena engages with political stakeholders and partners to support MCII’s agenda of strengthening the disaster risk management - resilience nexus.
Magdalena is interested in combining qualitative and quantitative methods in the fields of climate adaptation, CDRFI and (climate) migration. She holds an MSc in Geography of Environmental Risks and Human Security from the University of Bonn and UNU-EHS, where she investigated the inclusion of human mobility in national adaptation policies for her master’s thesis. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Geography from Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, where she specialized in conflict studies and climate policy. She has completed internships at the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) working on climate risk insurance, at the German Red Cross in disaster management and at the Ministry of Environment of the Mexican State of Jalisco. Magdalena has also previously worked as a student assistant at MCII in the project ‘MAIN Germany: Economy of Climate Change - new MAnagement INstruments to mitigate the risks of climate change in state and economy’ and at the German Development Institute.
Serin is a Project Associate at UNU-EHS and the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII). In this role, she focuses on advancing innovative solutions for climate risk management, with a particular emphasis on integrating climate risk finance into broader climate finance policies and investment strategies for countries highly vulnerable to climate change. Serin also supports V20 countries in developing and coordinating Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) solutions, with a focus on initiatives such as the Global Shield and the V20 Sustainable Insurance Facility
Prior to this role, Serin worked at the Green Climate Fund (GCF), where she focused on programming for the MENA region. She contributed to the initiation and development of climate projects and coordinated with stakeholders to ensure alignment with national climate challenges, policies, and priorities. Her responsibilities included project origination and collaboration with governments, MDBs, UN agencies, and the private sector to develop country-specific climate programs.
Serin also has experience in national agricultural insurance in Korea, where she played a key role in developing and implementing insurance policies, including evaluating the impact of climate change on insurance payouts. She led the development of a new insurance product, handling budgeting, product design, and stakeholder coordination. Her work included comprehensive analysis of agricultural insurance, estimating future premium rates, policy reviews, farm site visits, and collaborating with both public and private sectors.
Serin holds a Master’s degree in Climate Change Finance and Investment from the University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor’s degree in Food and Resource Economics, with a double major in Financial Engineering, from Korea University.
Nazaruddin (Raja) is a Project Manager at MCII supporting the Climate Risk Adaptation and Insurance in the Caribbean (CRAIC) project. Raja has a background in economics and environmental management; he has worked for over 10 years in disaster risk management, climate mitigation and adaptation projects in Indonesia. He holds a master's degree in International Management of Resources and Environment from the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Syiah Kuala University, Indonesia.
Raja's first job was working for shock response and post-disaster projects after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in 2004. Before joining MCII, he worked for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on sustainable urban transport and environmental related interventions. On In his last assignment, he worked together with UNU-EHS and MCII to support the Indonesian Government in developing a national strategy for Adaptive Social Protection which is the interface of Disaster Risk Management, Social Protection, and Climate Change Adaptation.
Mariam works as Project Associate at MCII and in her new role, she will be contributing to ongoing work in the CRAIC and PICAP projects, which seek to address climate change, adaptation, and vulnerability by promoting index-based insurance as a risk management instrument in the Caribbean and Pacific region.
Before joining MCII, Mariam worked for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) where she was responsible for the financial monitoring and reporting component of the BIRD (Bildungsraum Digital) project, which seeks to develop an IT-Infrastructure for the first-ever national digital education platform in Germany.
Previously, Mariam has gained an in-depth understanding of disaster risk financing and insurance products while working as an Underwriting Assistant at Liberty Mutual Reinsurance. Building on her hands-on experience, she is enthusiastic to leverage her technical knowledge of insurance products and processes to develop instruments to reduce the adverse effects of climate change for the most vulnerable communities.
She is also a Co-Founder and an Executive Board Member of the non-profit organization "Cooperation for Peace and Progress" in Georgia. In her capacity as a project manager between 2014 and 2018, she had an opportunity to implement numerous initiatives to raise awareness of socio-political issues among the youth, including climate change, in the south Caucasus region.
Mariam has obtained her Master´s degree in Political Science from the University of Cologne and Bachelor´s degree from Tbilisi State University, where she specialized in Political Science and International Relations.
Magdalena is working as a Project Assistant in the Climate Analytics team where she supports different projects by providing desk research, contributing to report writing, and reviewing policies. She also assists in the organization and facilitation of workshops and events.
Prior to MCII, Magdalena gained experience with an NGO implementing environmental and climate adaptation projects in Lomé, Togo. She was previously working as an intern and student assistant with GIZ and Welthungerhilfe. Magdalena holds a Master’s degree in Natural Resource Management and Development from TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences) where she assessed in her thesis the potential of organic-certified farming in strengthening smallholders’ climate resilience. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Geography at the University of Heidelberg.
Alvaro Rojas-Ferreira joins MCII as a Senior Project Associate for the ECA Studies team supporting with stakeholder engagement and data collection through the different workshops required within the ECA methodology. Additionally Alvaro will be assisting with research tasks related to the recommended adaptation measures, and reporting for the different partners of the project.
Alvaro holds an MSc in Natural Resources Management from the TH Cologne and an engineering degree from the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. He has experience supporting project implementation and evaluation in the fields of GHG mitigation and climate risk management with ICLEI and GIZ, respectively. As part of interdisciplinary and multicultural teams, he has worked in project coordination including monitoring systems for activities and goals, stakeholder engagement, capacity building through workshops and online tools, and ensuring appropriate reporting and documentation. Alvaro is particularly interested in how to integrate adaptation measures to boost synergies in different contexts.
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Stella Shumba is a Senior Research Associate, who is committed to evaluating climate risk insurance demand and impact across diverse regions, with a focus on integrating gender perspectives.
Dr. Stella Shumba is a Senior Research Associate at the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), hosted by UNU-EHS. Leading research efforts within the Solutions and Implementation team, she contributes to evaluating the demand for and impact of climate risk insurance across various project regions, including the Pacific (PICAP program), Caribbean (CRAIC program) and soon expanding to Africa and Asia under the joint UNU-EHS/UNCDF global program (CIRP).
Previously, Dr. Shumba held positions such as Carnegie DEAL Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher at the African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, where she focused on assessing weather index insurance effectiveness in empowering smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa to adapt to changing climate conditions.
Her expertise spans climate disaster risk finance and insurance (CDRFI), climate justice, Just Energy Transitions, food systems resilience, strengthening smallholder farmer resilience, perceptions of risk and gender-integrated research.
Dr. Shumba actively contributes to academia, having played a crucial role in the World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP) Working Group on Loss and Damage, where her responsibilities included conducting semi-systematic literature reviews and data analysis with the aim of producing knowledge outputs, including policy briefs. Furthermore, she previously engaged in a Wellcome Trust-sponsored project, aimed at comprehending the impact of climate change on human health, actively conducting key informant interviews with leading researchers in this domain.
Dr. Shumba brings extensive teaching experience from her tenure as a Senior Lecturer at the Women's University of Africa, Zimbabwe, where she taught courses on Gender and Agriculture, Environment and Sustainable Development, Disaster Research Methods, among others. She continues to lecture in various programs, including the Joint Master's Programme, offered by the University of Bonn and UNU-EHS, where she teaches Gender in CDRFI and Social Norms.
Committed to climate advocacy, Dr. Shumba serves as a Green Ambassador for Climate Change in Africa, raising awareness within local communities. She has also undergone training in Climate Leadership and Diplomacy, contributing to policymaking processes. Notably, she is undergoing training to become a Technical Expert Reviewer of Biennial Transparency Reports for the UNFCCC.
Dr. Shumba's diverse portfolio includes roles as an Agricultural Development Consultant for the Global Centre for Gender Equality and an Advisory Board Member for the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company.
Dr. Maxime Souvignet is the Climate Risk Analytics Team Lead and a senior scientist at UNU-EHS. His expertise ranges from climate risk modelling, climate risk insurance, disaster risk management and climate adaptation.
Dr. Maxime Souvignet, a French-German, is the Climate Risk Analytics Team Lead and a Senior Scientist at UNU-EHS. He also worked as a Post-Doctoral Scientist at the University of Bristol, UK, and worked for 3 years as an international consultant for several international donors such as KfW, WB and GIZ. He holds a PhD in Hydrology and Climatology, an MSc. in Natural Resources Management and a Mechanical Engineering Degree (eq. MSc). He has more than 15 years of international research and project experience in climate risk modelling, disaster risk, natural resource management and climate change adaptation. His expertise ranges from climate risk modelling, climate risk insurance, disaster risk management and climate adaptation. Among other assignments, in 2015, 2019 and 2020 as a team leader, he worked on behalf of KfW and ISF/FS one of the first ECA studies using CLIMADA in El Salvador (2015), Honduras (2019), Ethiopia (2020) and Vietnam (2020). On behalf of KfW, he has also developed a guidebook on how to use the method in different situations using a step-by-step approach. Recently, he acted as a project manager for the ACRI+ project (IKI, BMU) in collaboration with GIZ. This project was also used to perform several climate risk assessment studies using CLIMADA, highlighting its feasibility for different sectors. With more than 30 scientific publications, reports and contributions to international conferences, Dr. Souvignet is a recognized expert within the international community and works regularly as a reviewer for international scientific journals such as Theoretical and Applied Climatology, International Journal of Climatology and Hydrology Research.
Florian is a Project Manager in the Climate Risk Analytics Team within MCII. Much of his work and research as an economist focuses on the analysis of monetary and non-monetary impacts of natural hazards.
Florian has gathered a wealth of experience working at UNU applying the Economic of Climate Adaptation (ECA) framework in different settings. As member of UNU's Climate Risk Analytics team, he is developing the framework further to also address non-monetary impacts on e.g. social protection dimensions. He has a deep interest in better understanding how people are affected by natural hazards beyond impacts on physical infrastructure.
His work at UNU and his previous positions, e.g. at GIZ, allowed him to gather work experience leading and working projects in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia.
Christina Natalia Widjaja works as a Project Associate in the Climate Risk Analytics Team at MCII. She is supporting project management activities for several donors such as UNOPS and GIZ. She is currently conducting comprehensive climate risk analysis studies applying the Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA) methodology across diverse landscapes. Additionally, she is building a collaborative alliance with UNU-EHS to strategically identify relevant project proposal calls and contribute to fundraising.
Prior to this, she gained experience in Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change Adaptation, and Social Protection while working as a student assistant at VARMAP/MCII since March 2020 for the Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) Roadmap project and the Climate and Disaster Risk Analytics Tool for Adaptive Social Protection (CADRAT) project. Both projects are part of the "Social Protection Programme" in Indonesia led by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), in close collaboration with the Indonesian Government. One of the main results is the Hazard, Exposure, and Vulnerability assessment across regions and provinces in Indonesia, in which she co-authored.
She holds an MSc. in Natural Resources Management from the Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and a BSc. in Chemistry from Universitas Indonesia. Before starting her master’s studies, Christina had built a successful career spanning nearly 11 years in operations’ project and change management, strategic planning, budgeting, reporting, monitoring, and evaluation within a multinational company with international exposure such as in Hong Kong and Switzerland.
Michael Zissener is the Initiative Coordinator for the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII). As an expert on the application of different types of risk transfer tools, such as index-based approaches, microinsurance, regional risk pools, Michael’s focus lies on the resilience and livelihood security of people and communities vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.
Michael is well-versed in linking different stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds (incl. the UN-system, private sector, academia, NGOs, etc.) to distill objective-driven results. He has substantive experience in project management of different types of projects, including working with international partners and a variety of different donors. Michael mainly worked on the projects “Innovative Insurance Solutions for Adaptation to Climate Change” funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); and “Climate Risk Adaptation and Insurance in the Caribbean”, funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).
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Sabrina Zwick is a Programme Associate at MCII hosted at UNU-EHS. She is responsible for the management of grants and contributes to the project "Promoting Integrated Mechanisms for Climate Risk Management and Transfer". This project aims to develop concepts for the integration of insurance solutions into climate risk management approaches in low income countries and emerging economies.
Sabrina Zwick holds a Master in Public Policy and Management from the University of Konstanz in Germany. She previously worked for UN-Water and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). Furthermore, her work experience includes the implementation of technical assistance projects in developing countries and countries in transition with a focus on public administration and environment.
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Altanzul Zorig is Project Assistant (administrative) at MCII. She engages in the Multi-actor partnership on climate and disaster risk financing and preparedness in the context of the InsuResilience Global Partnership project as well as other projects as a finance and administrative assistant. Altanzul (Zula) holds an MSc in Agriculture and Food Economics from University of Bonn. She majored in Agribusiness and her minor specification is Resource and Environmental Economics. She completed her undergraduate degree at National University of Business and Commerce in Bank Economics, in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia.