Jeremy Porter, Ph.D.

Head of Climate Implications Research at First Street

Speaker

Dr. Jeremy Porter is a founding member of First Street and is the Head of Climate Implications research. In this role, he leads the development of the organization’s economic implications models with a specific focus on the downstream impacts of climate change exposure to property valuation, climate migration patterns, commercial viability, risk-transfer, and other related topics with direct economic implications. 

Dr. Porter is widely recognized as an expert in the climate implications space with over 125 peer-reviewed scientific research papers, books, and chapters. His work covers both the substantive topic of climate exposure implications and the technical development of advanced analytic tools including statistical modeling, machine learning, and spatial informatics. As an expert in this space, Dr. Porter is regularly asked for comment and has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Associate Press, and many other national, local, and industry-focused publications. 

Dr. Porter holds a Ph.D. in Demography with minors in Mathematics/Statistics and Geospatial Technologies and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Applied Statistics.