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It's my my spiel. So, [laughter]
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my name is Parita Sastri. I'm an
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assistant professor of finance at
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Wharton. My [clears throat] research
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focus is on climate change and financial
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markets, trying to understand the role
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that financial institutions like banks
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and insurance companies play and how the
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economy adapts to climate change.
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[music] So when I was doing my PhD, um
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we had just experienced Hurricane Harvey
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in in Texas and it was a pretty
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disastrous hurricane and it hit a lot of
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places that had never really experienced
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that level of flooding in the recent
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past. So it [music] was just so big, so
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important, so underststudied and I felt
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like there was there were just so many
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questions I had. I think the finance
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department is a really amazing [music]
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place where people are working on a lot
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of different areas, but all extremely
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topical and policy relevant [music] and
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relevant for business. And so, it's just
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kind of exciting to hear what everyone's
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working on and draw these connections
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between different markets or different
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industries that you may not have thought
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about before. [music]
