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Veronika Bertram
Lead Risk Adviser
Veronika is Lead Risk Finance Adviser at the Centre for Disaster Protection with a passion for financial solutions and systems that create protection against climate risks.
Veronika advises countries, regional development banks, and other clients on financing solutions, strategies, and policies to better manage climate risks. Having worked as a banker and donor, she researches how donors and the international financial system invest in crisis financing. Read her latest insight paper Rethinking premium support: Enhancing the Impact and Sustainability of Climate Risk Insurance.
Veronika discovered her passion for climate risk finance during her PhD when she collected household data in Mongolia. She has worked in over 20 vulnerable countries with the German government—the German Development Bank and the German Institute for Economic Research—and the World Bank. She loves connecting dots and people.
Veronika lives in Washington, DC, with her family. A good day for her starts with a hand-ground coffee in the garden and ends with a swing dance.