Belinda Storey

Pricing of risk in coastal property and sea level rise

Belinda Storey, PhD student in Economics
Belinda Storey, PhD student in Economics

Email: Belinda.Storey@vuw.ac.nz

Supervisor: Professor Ilan Noy

Personal website: climatesigma.com

Profile

Belinda’s research centres on climate change risk. Her work focuses on the impact of escalating hazards on property prices and insurance availability, and the development of a new model for valuing property under climate change called “climate leases”.

Roles and responsibilities

  • Managing Director of Climate Sigma, which conducts scenario analysis and asset valuation on the physical and liability risks from climate change
  • Managing Director of Whakahura: Extreme Events and the Emergence of Climate Change research programme
  • Principal investigator with the Deep South National Science Challenge
  • Professional member of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Director on the board of Landcorp Farming (Pamu)
  • Belinda is also a member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors, Risk New Zealand, and the Wellington Mayoral Taskforce on Insurance
  • Previously served on the boards of 350 Aotearoa and ShelterBox New Zealand

Qualifications

  • BA (Political Science) (Hons) First Class, University of Canterbury
  • MSc (Disaster Risk), University of Canterbury
  • MBA (Finance), Columbia University of New York

Research interests

  • climate risk analysis and pricing
  • environmental economics, including the economics of climate change
  • catastrophe insurance
  • black swan and dragon king events
  • emergency management
  • climate leases

Publications

  • Storey B., Noy, I., Townsend, W., Kerr, S., Salmon, R., Middleton, D., Filippova, O., and James, V. (2017) Insurance, Housing and Climate Adaptation: Current Knowledge and Future Research, Motu Note #27, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
  • Storey B., Noy, I. (2017) Insuring Property under Climate Change, Policy Quarterly (pp. 68–79)