Role: Co-Principal Investigator   

Swenja is a Senior Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is Programme Leader for the ‘climate risk, insurance, and private sector’ work-stream at the institute, overseeing research projects from a multi-disciplinary field. Her research focuses on climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction with a special interest in the role of the private sector, particularly insurance and public-private partnerships as well as adaptation policy.