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.
