Role: Researcher

Christian is a research officer at the Grantham Research Institute. Christian studies people’s adaptation strategies to climate variability and uncertainty, applying economic concepts like flexibility and diversification. Christian holds a Masters degree in hydrology and a Ph.D. in environmental economics from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. His doctoral thesis focuses on flexibility in land and water use for coping with rainfall variability. He has worked for various large climate and water-related research projects, focusing on East Africa and South Asia.