Lisa Thalheimer is a climate economist at Princeton University's Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment. Her main research interest centers around climate-related human mobility, understanding the underlying drivers of human (im)mobility, e.g., conflict and food insecurity, and the attribution of extreme weather-driven human mobility to climate change. Related research interests include forecast-based financing/ anticipatory action, compound events, and systemic risk. Lisa is an associate researcher at the Oxford's Climate Econometrics and the World Weather Attribution initiative, an international effort to analyze and communicate the possible influence of climate change on extreme weather events. Lisa is a visiting scholar with the FutureLab - Security, Ethnic Conflicts and Migration at PIK.
Lisa received her DPhil (PhD) from the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, and a MSc in Sustainability Management from Columbia University and a double degree BSc in Business and Economics from the University of Europe for Applied Sciences. Lisa holds advisory roles for the World Bank and the German Sachverständigenrat für Integration und Migration (SVR).
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