Dr Kanta RIGAUD

Lead Environmental Specialist, World Bank

Dr. Kanta Kumari Rigaud is a Lead Environmental Specialist at the World Bank. She works on climate adaptation and resilience policy, strategy, and knowledge management. She led the development of the World Bank’s Next Generation Africa Climate Business Plan and the  report  Groundswell - Preparing for Internal Climate Migration. Kanta is the co-chair of the Technical Working Group on Environmental Change and Migration in KNOMAD, on the Advisory Board to the EU funded HABITABLE project, and a member of the IUCN task force and Working group on Nature-Based Solutions at the Nexus of Environmental Change, Conflict, and Migration. She has a doctorate from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.