Emily Jones

Within WFP’s climate insurance team, Emily leads WFP’s macro insurance portfolio as the Climate and Disaster Risk Financing Advisor. She has been overseeing WFP’s first microinsurance programme, ARC Replica, since 2018, which now includes 7 countries and is leading WFP’s expansion into new regions. Emily has been working in disaster risk financing since 2017, originally at the Start Network. Prior to working in DRF, Emily worked on several humanitarian emergencies, including the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

Emily holds an MSc From the London School of Economics in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies.