Lisette Braman

BIOGRAPHY:

Lisette Braman serves as Program Manager on the Financial Instruments Sector Team, a group managing insurance research, implementation, and education projects with a wide range of partners, supported by dozens of individual grants for projects that serve several hundred thousand farmers.

Before joining this team, Lisette served as Climate Risk Advisor to the American Red Cross, International Services Department. There, she provided technical support to increase awareness of climate variability and change in international disaster risk reduction programs. Lisette’s work with the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement began in 2008 at the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, where she provided technical support to multi-country programs, including the Preparedness for Climate Change Program and Partners for Resilience. While working for the Climate Centre, Lisette was also based at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), where she helped facilitate the Partnership to Save Lives with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). This work involved liaising with climate scientists to provide tools and services that supported forecast-based decision-making, working as part of the Help Desk Team to provide disaster managers with rapid responses to climate-related questions, and coordinating an internship program, bringing graduate students with climate expertise to Red Cross/Red Crescent offices around the world. Lisette also documented the use of climate information by the Red Cross in West Africa for improved disaster preparedness and response.

Through the master’s program in Climate and Society at Columbia University, she gained interdisciplinary knowledge of climate variability and change. Before entering the field of Climate Risk Management, Lisette worked with non-profit organizations, including the Environmental Leadership Program and the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group. Lisette earned her undergraduate degree in Environment, Economics, and Politics at Scripps College.