Stéphane Hallegatte is the Senior Climate Change Advisor of the World Bank Climate Change Group. Mr. Hallegatte is the author of dozens of articles published in international journals in multiple disciplines and of several books and World Bank reports including Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty. He also led the development of the Resilience Rating System, a tool of monitor and report on how resilience is included in public or private investments. More recently, he has supervised the new World Bank diagnostic, the Country Climate and Development Reports, and has co-led the CCDRs for Turkey and Brazil. Mr. Hallegatte holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and a Ph.D in economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).