Running Toward Risk

Experienced Corporate Executive, Group General Counsel and board member. Former Global Chief Legal Officer for RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: RNR).

Executive Director of BuildStrong. Expertise and results in public policy, public administration, emergency management policy, and process improvements

Executive Director of InnSure. Mission driven to catalyze a quick, bold, and decisive insurance industry response to climate change.

Managing Director of InnSure. Chris is a business-builder, mentor, and strategic advisor: Pushing the bounds of the insurance industry using human-centered design to create new and intuitive products and services which close the protection gap, expand the addressable market, and act as a force for good for individuals, businesses, and society.

Dean and Arch Professor at School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia.

Dr. Golden is the inaugural Pontarelli Professor of Environmental Sustainability & Finance at Syracuse University. He is also the founder and director of the Dynamic Sustainability Lab supporting industry and governments with the transition to a Net-Zero Carbon Economy & ESG.

Alexa has over 15 years of experience in climate change policy. She worked for the Chilean Ministry of Environment as a negotiator to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and on furthering climate action on-the-ground. She participated in the negotiations that concluded with the Paris Agreement in 2015, focusing on mitigation, transparency and carbon markets. After Paris, she spent 3 years in California, appointed by former Governor Jerry Brown as the Deputy Secretary for Border and Intergovernmental Relations at the California EPA, where she helped form the US Climate Alliance and organize the Global Climate Action Summit. In the last few years, Alexa has been an independent consultant working for EDF, WRI, Netflix and now Vibrant Planet on various climate matters, mainly related to carbon markets.

Andrew is an experienced executive with over a decade working in the insurtech and reinsurance space. Most recently he helped found and led Argo Group’s Digital Division as VP of Digital. Before that, he was Commercial Field Sales Leader for Allstate and has had experience from ground level retail agencies, all the way up through complex mortgage derivative reinsurance pricing/structures. Andrew co-founded Kettle with the goal to protect the world against climate change using deep learning and reinsurance. Spending his time between Bermuda and New York, Andrew is passionate about utilizing groundbreaking machine learning to solve some of the most complex issues facing the Re/insurance world today.

EVP of Casualty and Product Innovation at Ethos Specialty Insurance, an MGU with an in-depth understanding of the technology that underpins the global economy’s transition to a clean energy future.

Dir. of Partnerships at InnSure. Design-led strategy and innovation leader passionate about solving business problems through the lens of the customer. Focused on working with partners in defining and aligning strategy to business goals, understanding the implications of climate risk and emerging clean technologies, applying design thinking and other innovation methods, building strategic partnerships, and enabling organizations to be future-ready.

Serial insurtech entrepreneur. Former head of insurance at Tesla insurance. Visiting lecturer at Northeastern University’s Masters of Insurance Analytics and Management program.

Dr. Jaap de Vries is vice president, innovation science and technology.. In this role, he discovers and develops new opportunities to guide the strategic planning efforts of FM Global and its mutual members. He is responsible for building a network of sources to identify, research and assess emerging signals of change in the market, new technologies and scientific advances.

Former Head of Innovation at Amica Insurance. Board of Advisors at Mass Challenge and Board of Directors at InnSure.

Harvard Undergrad class of 2024. Founder of Climate Change Academy. Board Member of Harvard Ventures. Worked at the carbon removal fund at Lower carbon Capital to develop frameworks for MRV. Advisor to InnSure on MRV issues.

Managing Director of Program Development for New Energy Risk. Schulz, who previously served as market leader for Ariel Re’s clean energy team, has depth of experience in using insurance to support the financing, customer adoption and achievement of scale of clean technology.

Consulting actuary working on wildfire risk and other climate risk modeling projects with Milliman.

Executive Director, MIT Mobility Initiative I Future of Mobility Advisor, Assembly Ventures Operator Advisor, Head of Mobility at World Economic Forum for 15+ years.

Alison is a conservation leader and innovator who works across boundaries to develop and implement strategic initiatives to protect healthy rivers, estuaries and oceans and the benefits they provide to people—clean water, climate resilience, and sustainable seafood. Specialized in influencing policy through sound science, building partnerships, and finding intersections among differing perspectives to build support for conservation action among decision-makers and the public. Alison received her B.A. in Environmental Science from American University, and her M.S. in Water Resource Management from University of New Hampshire.

Managing Director at KPMG. Business strategy consulting focused on climate data and technology .