Abstract:

Founded at Stanford University in 1988, Risk Management Solutions—now part of Moody’s—is a leading provider of catastrophe risk models used by insurers, reinsurers, corporations, and governments worldwide. These models support decision-making across a broad range of natural and man-made perils, including earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorism, and pandemics. Our model development unit functions as a multidisciplinary team of catastrophe modelers including statisticians, mathematicians, physical scientists, and engineers.

In this seminar, I will provide an introduction to catastrophe risk modelling. I will also discuss the typical responsibilities and day-to-day work of a cat-modeler, how I entered the cat-modeling community after my Ph.D. and show a few examples of work that we are doing.