Karina Whalley

Head of Public Sector - AXA Climate

Karina is the Head of Public Sector at AXA Climate, working with development institutions, investors and governments to spearhead adaptation, climate risk management and disaster risk financing tools. She represents AXA in the Insurance Development Forum which brings together the insurance industry, the UNDP and World Bank on climate risk. Karina previously worked at the African Risk Capacity, the first African sovereign natural catastrophe risk pool. Before that, she was working in (re)insurance and the investment sector.