Carolyn Kousky

Senior Fellow

Carolyn Kousky is founder and executive director of Insurance for Good, contributing economist at Environmental Defense Fund, and senior fellow at the Kleinman Center. She is author of Understanding Disaster Insurance: New Tools for a More Resilient Future and an editor of A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation. She is a member of the High-Level Advisory Board on the Financial Management of Catastrophic Risks at the OECD, the vice-chair of the California Climate Insurance Working Group, a member of the Green Ribbon Commission for the California Department of Insurance, and a non-resident scholar at the Insurance Information Institute.

She has published numerous articles, reports, and book chapters on the economics and policy of climate risk and disaster finance and she is routinely cited in media outlets. Kousky has a BS in Earth Systems from Stanford University and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.