Hélène Jacot des Combes

Hélène worked as Project Manager on ISC’s project Review of hazards definition and classification from 2023 to 2025. She managed the review and update of Hazard Information Profiles (HIPs) and of other projects related to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).

Hélène holds a PhD on paleo-oceanography from the University of Lille in France.

Prior to joining the ISC, Hélène worked for eight years as an academic staff at the Pacific Center for Environment and Sustainable Development center of the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. She then became an adviser to the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands on climate change adaptation and disaster risk management for the World Bank funded PREP II project. She was also a lead author for the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate in 2019.

The page was updated in June 2025.