Ruben Kerkhofs

PhD Student at University of Leuven

Speaker

Ruben Kerkhofs holds a PhD in Statistics from KU Leuven and is an affiliated researcher at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. His research lies at the intersection of extreme climate events, supply chain analytics and quantitative financial risk management, with a particular focus on how dependencies and uncertainty shape the transmission of physical climate risks from individual assets to firms, supply chains and financial portfolios.

His research has been presented at academic, regulatory and financial institutions including Yale University, the Reserve Bank of India, Bloomberg, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Trinity College Dublin, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Vlerick Business School, and many others. His work has also been featured in initiatives and case studies by organisations including the UK Financial Conduct Authority and the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment.

Alongside his academic work, Ruben is a data scientist at RiskConcile, a fintech firm specialising in regulatory technology, quantitative risk management and risk advisory.