People and Partners

**Emily Black**
University of Reading
Principal Investigator

**Rahel Diro**
IRI, Columbia University
Co-Principal Investigator

**Bristol Powell**
IRI, Columbia University

**Laura Hoffman-Hernandez**
IRI, Columbia University

**Thabbie Chilongo**
CARD, Lilongwe University
Co-Principal Investigator

**Helen Greatrex**
Penn State University
Co-Principal Investigator

**Victoria Boult**
University of Reading

**Sari Lucille Blakeley**
UC Santa Barbara

**Miriam Nielsen**
IRI, Columbia University

**Nabilah Islam**
IRI, Columbia University

Pula works to provide agricultural insurance across eight countries in Africa and Asia, aiming to use technology to insure the approximately 1.5 billion smallholders currently farming across the world.

Blue Marble aims to protect smallholder farmers in Africa from extreme weather events by addressing financial vulnerability and provisioning affordable insurance.

Risk Shield specializes in Micro-insurance and Weather-Index insurance development, delivering insurance solutions to over 25 countries and extensively across sub-Saharan Africa.

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), a specialized agency of the African Union, established to enable countries to strengthen disaster risk management and respond to events through capacity building and innovative financial mechanisms.

R4 Rural Resilience Initiative

Established by the World Food Programme and Oxfam America, the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative promotes resiliency of African farmers through a holistic mix of insurance, risk reduction tools, access to credit and access to savings.

The One Acre Fund assists rural smallholders in achieving prosperity and food security through market-based strategies and the promoting the utilization of effective financial instruments.

Meet the Team

Index-Insurance Partners