Background
Hallegatte, Stephane was born on March 8, 1978 in Aix-en-Provence, France. Son of Raymond and Helene Hallegatte.
Hallegatte, Stephane was born on March 8, 1978 in Aix-en-Provence, France. Son of Raymond and Helene Hallegatte.
Engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie (Toulouse), master's degree in meteorology and climatology from the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse) and Ph.D in economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
Stéphane Hallegatte joined the World Bank in September 2012 after 10 years of academic research in environmental economics and climate science for Météo-France, the Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement, and Stanford University. His research interests include environmental economics, risk management, adaptation to climate change, urban policy, climate change mitigation policies, and green growth.
Mr. Hallegatte is lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chapter “the economics of adaptation” in the working group on impacts and adaptation and in the Synthesis Report that summarizes the 5th assessment report. He is the author of dozens of articles published in international journals in multiple disciplines and of several books, including Green Economy and the Crisis: 30 Proposals for a More Sustainable France and Risk Management: Lessons from the Storm Xynthia.
He has taught at the Ecole Polytechnique, Science Po Paris, the Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie, and the Normal University in Beijing, and is the editor in charge of economics for the international journal "WIRES Climate Change." He was a member of the French delegation for the approval plenary of the 4th assessment report of the IPCC in 2007, and for Conferences of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2008 to 2010.
Married Emeline Bredy, September 13, 2008.