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Email: bayer@iiasa.ac.at

Curriculum Vitae
2008 Publications

Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer leads IIASA's Program on Risk, Policy and Vulnerability.  Her current research focuses on financial solutions for low-income households and businesses to help them cope with their catastrophe risk exposures, a topic she pursues with many collaborators, including insurers, NGOs and partners in the developing world.  This research topic builds on her early study of flood risk on the Tisza river in Hungary that combined catastrophe modeling with stakeholder participation for the design of a public flood insurance pool. The design of social insurance systems combines Dr. Linnerooth-Bayer's interests in fairness with respect to sharing social burdens with her commitment to finding democratic "clumsy" solutions that take account of the usually diverse and conflicting stakeholder views. 

Most recently, and as part of the EU integrated project, ADAM, Dr. Linnerooth-Bayer is endeavoring to put  insurance and other risk-transfer mechanisms on the climate-adaptation agenda. In collaboration with Kyoto University and Beijung Normal University, she organizes an annual conference on Integrated Disaster Risk Management. 

Dr. Linnerooth-Bayer received her M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Maryland, respectively. She has over 100 publications in the area of risk participation, communication and management, and she is on the editorial board of three international journals.

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