Dr. Jennifer Cissé is an Research Manager on Climate Risk Finance and Resilience for the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), hosted by UNU-EHS, supporting ongoing work on Small Island States in the Caribbean and Pacific and the development of new insurance products to protect vulnerable populations against extreme weather risk. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University, where her doctoral research focus on resilience estimation and the impact of insurance on resilience.
Prior to joining MCII, Dr. Cissé was a Senior Risk Advisor in the Bureau for Food Security at USAID. She has previously worked for Catholic Relief Services and as a consultant for both Catholic Relief Services and Lutheran World Relief.