Helen Wiley

Helen Wiley
SBP

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Helen Wiley is Disaster Preparedness Program Director at SBP, a national disaster resilience non-profit. Additionally, she is a founding Board Member of Insurance for Good, a new non-profit designed to be the hub for a growing community of practice of people and institutions in the US working to harness risk transfer in support of social and environmental goals. Her expertise is in disaster insurance and risk communication. Helen’s domestic and international policy experience in disaster risk reduction and adaptation issues has grounded her belief in the criticality of better preparing vulnerable communities pre-disaster to improve recovery outcomes.

Helen previously served at the Wharton Risk Center at the University of Pennsylvania as Assistant Director of Research and Policy, where she managed the Center’s Policy Incubator projects with public sector partners. She has also worked on international climate and disaster risk reduction projects at the German Development Institute and at the UN Institute for Environment and Human Security. Helen holds a B.A. in Environmental Policy from Washington University in St. Louis; her M.Sc. in Geography of Environmental Risks and Human Security was administered jointly by the United Nations University and the University of Bonn, Germany.