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