Brigitte Balthasar

Brigitte contributes to the financial management of disaster and climate risk across ADB’s developing member countries by working with ADB’s operational departments to prepare and implement respective solutions. Her primary responsibilities include developing disaster and climate risk financing approaches, conducting disaster risk assessments, and providing policy advice. 

Brigitte is an international risk manager with over 13 years of professional experience in financial services in disaster financing, risk transfer, and sustainability. Before joining ADB, Brigitte was a freelance consultant working with organizations in the public and private sectors in climate risk insurance providing support for innovative insurance and risk transfer solutions. Previously, she led the risk and accumulation strategy, capacity monitoring, catastrophe modeling, and scenario testing of Helvetia Specialty Lines in Basel, Switzerland. Brigitte commenced her career with Gallagher Re (formerly Willis Re), London, in 2009, managing the catastrophe analytics team for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. During that time, she had also been working for the climate research hub of the Willis Research Network, in which context she was seconded to the UNDRR to contribute to the Global Assessment Report 2011. Brigitte is a German national with a post-graduate degree in Mathematics, Geography, and Instructional Design from the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Germany) and Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain).