Margaret Arnold

Margaret Arnold is the Global Lead on the Social Dimensions of Climate Change and a Senior Social Development Specialist with the World Bank. Margaret has been with the World Bank since 1995, and currently leads work on social resilience, inclusive approaches to climate and disaster risk management, citizen engagement in climate change decision making, and locally-led climate action. She was part of a two-women team that established the World Bank's first unit focused on natural disaster risk management in 1998 (the Disaster Management Facility), and is credited with facilitating the Bank's recognition of disaster risk reduction as a development priority. She is one of the founders of the ProVention Consortium and served as Head of its Secretariat from 2007-2009.