Climate Risk Insurance

Annette is working as senior consultant in the area of climate risk finance and insurance. Since 2015 the support of insurance market development and risk financing approaches has been a focus of her work. Annette is Head of the InsuResilience Solutions Fund managed by Frankfurt School and Director of Climate Risk Solutions Management. Prior to her advisory work Annette was Head of Division of the Financial Sector Policy Unit within KfW Development Bank responsible for all policy and strategic issues regarding KfW activities in financial system development in developing countries. Facilitating the dialogue of different stakeholders from the public and the private sector Annette contributed to the establishment of the InsuResilience Global Partnership, an international initiative supported by the G20 and V20 member countries.

Gero has a long career working in underwriting, risk management, data and analytics related roles in insurance and reinsurance, with a focus on portfolio management, pricing, capital efficiencies, and product development. He has over 30 years of risk management experience, with expertise gained working as a geoscientist in academia and in disaster research, with a PHD in Geoscience. As AIG Re Group's Chief Risk Officer, he is a member of the executive board of the company and optimizes risk and portfolio/capital strategies and assists in the creation of new insurance-linked securities (ILS) product opportunities, among others. Prior to this hiring by AIG, he was the lead for Aon’s UK & EMEA Analytics within its Reinsurance Solutions division. Gero had worked at Chaucer before that, as Managing Director of Chaucer’s EU operation, in charge of P&L, and with responsibilities for analytics, underwriting for EU, and parametric solutions for both emerging and developed markets. He has also held senior positions at Montpelier Re, Willis, RMS, Endurance and Hannover Re.

Josh Ling is an actuary and disaster risk finance expert supporting the programs of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.  He was previously the Fund Manager of the Asia-Pacific Climate Finance Fund at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila, Philippines. Josh commenced his career in the financial sector in Australia, where he qualified as an actuary, before moving into roles focused on financial inclusion and disaster risk finance in the international development sector.  He has worked for the UN World Food Programme, World Bank, and the global humanitarian organization, Mercy Corps.  Josh was based in Mexico and Colombia for 7 years, supporting the establishment of a start-up reinsurance company, MiCRO, that designs and implements disaster risk insurance solutions in Latin America.   

Simon holds a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology. He specializes in climate risk assessments and climate science translation, working at the interface between science and policies/finance for over 10 years. Currently, as part of the International Advisory Services team at Frankfurt School and Senior Researcher at the InsuResilience Solutions Fund, he is working towards the aim of increasing the resilience of (climate) vulnerable and emerging countries. This primarily includes the creation of climate and disaster risk profiles for several assets, hazard mapping, providing decision support for policy makers for climate adaptation measures, and engagement with the private insurance sector. He is also part of the technical expert team of the recently launched public-private Global Risk Modelling Alliance (GRMA). His previous academic career included a Postdoctoral position at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and a Climate Scientist posting at the University of Birmingham, where he undertook climate prediction modelling and the analysis of extreme events.