Rate My Professor Nicola Ranger

Professor Nicola Ranger is Executive Director of Earth Capital Nexus and Professor in Practice of Natural Capital, Risk and Finance in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She leads interdisciplinary research and policy engagement at the nexus of finance, investment, natural capital, resilience and sustainable development with a global focus. Professor Ranger is a globally recognized expert in sustainable finance, climate and nature, and systemic resilience. Her research focuses on integrating climate and nature risks into financial decision-making, developing innovative financial instruments, green fiscal policy, debt sustainability and mobilizing investment for sustainable development. She works closely with financial institutions, central banks, governments, and international organizations.

Professor Ranger brings two decades of experience working in senior roles across government, research, international financial institutions and the private sector, including leadership roles at the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford, the World Bank and DFID (now FCDO). She has been involved in founding and leading many significant global initiatives related to sustainable finance and systemic resilience, including the G20-V20 InsuResilience Global Partnership, the Global Shield Financing Facility, the Centre for Greening Finance and Investment and the Centre for Disaster Protection. She led the first nature-related stress test for a G7 economy (the UK) and has worked on climate financial and fiscal risks and risk management across more than 10 countries. Prior to her current roles, she was a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Adaptation and Development at the Grantham Research Institute, LSE between 2009 and 2013. She was part of the HMT/Cabinet Office Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change in 2005/06 and has worked as a Scientific Advisor at Defra, HM Treasury and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. Nicola completed her postdoctoral research in climate economics and policy at the Grantham Research Institute LSE and holds a doctorate in Atmospheric Physics from Imperial College London. She serves on several high-level advisory groups, including those for the World Bank, the Bank of England’s Climate Financial Risk Forum, the Network for Greening the Financial System, TRASE, Natural State and PlanetaryX. She also holds positions as Theme lead for the Protecting and Enhancing Nature and Biodiversity theme at the Global School of Sustainability at LSE, Founding Director of the Resilient Planet Finance Lab, Co-Director of UKRI Integrating Finance and Biodiversity, Co-Director of Leveraging Earth Observation for Nature Finance, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School, Senior Associate at Oxford Net Zero, and Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.