Subir Sen is an Associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Joint Faculty in the Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management (COEDMM) at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He obtained his PhD from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore with a fellowship under the “Reserve Bank Scheme of Endowment of Professorial Chairs and Research Fellowship”. His research areas are Economics of risk and uncertainty, Insurance economies, and Economics of climate change and natural disasters. He worked at TERI University, New Delhi and Madras School of Economics, Chennai before joining IIT Roorkee. He received several awards such as JSPS-ICSSR Joint Research Project, First Prize under Japanese Outstanding Research on Development (ORD) from Global Development Network (GDN) in 2015, subsidy for thesis from the Association Internationale pour I’Etude de I’Economie de I’ Assurance (the Geneva Association) and scholarship for participation in Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2008. He contributed to sponsored research by the Govt. and International agencies such as the Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India, IRDAI, SANEI, IFC, World Bank Group and UK NERC. He presented his research at different national and international conferences and has a number of publications to his credit. Currently, he is also a Member of the Board of Governors, Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association (APRIA) and Joint Secretary of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE). His research has appeared in journals such as Climate and Development, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, among others.