Dr. Daniel Osgood

Daniel Osgood leads the Financial Instruments Sector Team at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI). He has an agricultural economics PhD from UC Berkeley. His team drives forecast based action and insurance efforts around the world, supporting many of the index insurance projects that have gone to scale, ranging from national level insurance to the millions of smallholder farmers purchasing index insurance contracts built through farmer-driven, science-based crowd at core processes. He has been involved in global policy processes such as the UNFCCC, with projects he works on highlighted by Ban Ki-moon in the opening speech at the 2015 Paris COP and has had press coverage in venues spanning Voice of America, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, Nature, New York Times, and Reuters.