Oliver Fiala

Dr. Oliver Fiala is a development economist, specialising in the role of financial instruments against natural disasters in developing countries. After studying economics at TU Dresden, he worked for four years as a Research Assistant at the university's Faculty of Business and Economics, where he completed his doctoral thesis in 2016. He has worked on various private sector and academic research projects across the fields of development, environmental, behavioural, regional, health and...See more

Dr. Oliver Fiala is a development economist, specialising in the role of financial instruments against natural disasters in developing countries. After studying economics at TU Dresden, he worked for four years as a Research Assistant at the university's Faculty of Business and Economics, where he completed his doctoral thesis in 2016. He has worked on various private sector and academic research projects across the fields of development, environmental, behavioural, regional, health and microeconomics. He was an organiser of the 'International Conference on Shocks and Development' 2016 in Dresden, and has shaped and taught economics courses in Germany and Cambodia. See less