MEDIA RELATIONS

The Centre for Disaster Protection is delighted to announce the appointment of Ben Webster as new Associate Director, effective 8 September 2025.

A new policy note from the Centre for Disaster Protection launched during London Climate Action Week calls for greater clarity, coordination and capacity-building to unlock the full potential of pause clauses.

The High-Level Panel on Closing the Crisis Protection Gap launch report Crisis Protection 2.0: Future-Proofing Our World. Concluding a year of deliberations, the report’s call to action is stark: The crisis protection gap is widening, and to meet increasingly frequent and severe shocks across the globe requires scaling the proportion of crisis finance, which is prearranged tenfold by 2035, especially for the least developed countries and small island developing states. 

The Centre for Disaster Protection (the Centre) is delighted to announce the appointment of Emily White as its Chief Finance and Operations Officer.  The new role has been created to position the Centre for its next phase, to further develop delivery capability to meet the growing momentum in the global disaster protection agenda.

The Centre for Disaster Protection (the Centre) is delighted to announce the appointment of Cristina Stefan as its new Head of Advisory. Cristina brings a wealth of experience in advising humanitarian organisations, countries and multilateral development banks in designing pre-arranged finance solutions, such as sovereign insurance products; agricultural insurance schemes; insurance-linked securities; and other alternative risk transfer products.

Just 1.1% of total crisis financing from international development donors was arranged in advance in 2022, according to the latest data, and remains concentrated in wealthier regions.