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Elisa Calliari is a social and political scientist working in the Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program, which she joined in 2022 after being awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for her project ITHACA (Planned Relocation as Adaptation in a Changing Climate). Her research explores the role of institutions and governance arrangements in supporting climate change adaptation and the emerging policy field of loss and damage associated with climate change impacts.
Before joining IIASA, she worked as a senior research fellow at the Department of Political Science at University College London (2018-2022) where she co-led cross-national comparative research on domestic loss and damage policymaking, with a specific focus on developing countries (Fiji, Peru, and Tuvalu), and analyzed loss and damage negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). From 2013 to 2018 she was a researcher at the Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategy division of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC), where she contributed to several large-scale international projects on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in Europe and beyond (Caribbean Small Island Developing States, Mexico, Paraguay, Uganda).
Calliari has also been involved in policy-oriented research efforts, like co-authoring the Italian Climate Change Adaptation Plan, the 2017 Science for Disaster Risk Management Report of the European Union, and acted as expert on adaptation in transnational regions for the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation. She has been providing technical advice to the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition on loss and damage since March 2022 and is a member of the Italian delegation to the UNFCCC.
She has a background in International Relations and Diplomacy (MSc, University of Trieste, Italy), a specialization in Environmental Economics and Management (MSc, Bocconi University, Italy), and holds a PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change (Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy).
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