Dr. Koko Warner is Director of the Penn International Climate Observatory at the University of Pennsylvania, where she connects cutting-edge research with decision support to manage climate risks, resilience and sustainable energy systems. She brings more than two decades of experience working at the interface of science, policy and practice across climate change, migration and displacement, risk management and data analytics. Warner is a Lead Author of the IPCC Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Assessment Reports. She was named among the International Council of Science’s Top 20 women contributing to the climate change debate.
Warner previously directed the Global Data Institute at the International Organization for Migration and managed the loss and damage, adaptation knowledge, and indigenous peoples portfolios at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Earlier, she led the first empirical studies on climate migration, and loss and damage in vulnerable countries at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security. she co-founded and was Executive Director of the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative. Her career also includes research at ETH Zurich and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Vienna as a Fulbright Fellow.
