Ben Brunckhorst is a consultant in the Global Unit of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice at the World Bank. His research interests include climate change and poverty, disaster risk finance, and public infrastructure investment. Before joining the World Bank, he was a research assistant at the University of Oxford and the UK government’s Centre for Disaster Protection. Ben holds bachelor degrees in engineering and economics from the University of Queensland, and an MSc in economics for development from the University of Oxford.