Belinda Storey

Pricing of risk in coastal property and sea level rise

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)