Interviews, Op-Eds, & Public Speeches

Media selection

Op-Ed by Erwann Michel-Kerjan on the current status of terrorism risk insurance markets and the creation of a worldwide platform: Enruring that Our Economies Remain Terror-Proof” June 23, 2010.
• Interview by the French leading business newspaper. (in French). Facing the global threat of terrorism risk, the OECD recommands a global response, by Geraldine Vial. AssuranceTerroriste, June 7, 2010.
• “How to manage risk in complex projects” (Click here). Interview for the Financial Times, May 19, 2010.
• Op-Ed by Erwann Michel-Kerjan: “Reform of the US National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP): Introducing Long-Term Flood Insurance”, April 28, 2010.
• “Not Up in the Air”, Coverage of the business and risk management impact of the volcano in Iceland, The Economist, (interview of Erwann Michel-Kerjan) — April 22-30, 2010.
• The Return of History, by David Brooks (discusses Erwann Michel-Kerjan’s book The Irrational Economist )– The New York Times, March 2010.
• Why Natural Disasters Are More Expensive—But Less Deadly, by Mathhew Bandyk (discusses Erwann Michel-kerjan’s book At War with the Weather) — March 2010.
• Goldman Bankers Ride Merry-Go-Round With West Pointers: Books (The Irrational Economist book) — February 2010.
• A More Dangerous World, Op-Ed (with Paul Slovic), Newsweek, March 1, 2010. A More Dangerous World.MichelKerjan&Slovic.Newsweek.2010
• Friday, January 22, 2010
  12:00 – 12:20pm Eastern
  KVON “Late Mornings with Jeff Schechtman” – click HERE to access the program (scroll down to “Making Decision in a Dangerous World”
  


Radio Interview – THINK, with Krys Boyd. (Kera radio). 1pm to 2 pm. Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Click HERE to access the podcast.

• “MoneyTalk with Bob Brinker“. Radio Interview (Money talk is nationally syndicated to more than 220 ABC radio network affiliates). Jan. 10, 2010.
• “Economic Panic Attack” (By Daniel Gross), Newsweek, Dec. 14, 2009.
• “Disaster Risk Management Reborn” Risk Management Magazine, Dec. 2009.
• “Dealing with the Extraordinary” Interview for Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report, Sept.2009.
• “If a major hurricane strikes Florida this season, we all pay.” Palm Beach Post, May 30, 2009.
• “Major Earthquake Devastates Central Italy” Wall Street Journal, April 7, 2009.
• “Most Expensive States To Insure A Home” (by Matt Woolsey), Forbes, August 10, 2008.
• “The Biggest Crisis of All.” (By Rana Foroohar) Newsweek, May 19, 2008.
• “Winning by a Landslide: Why more disasters are declared during an election year.” (By Daniel Gross), Newsweek, Feb. 29, 2008.
• “Autopsie neuroéconomique de la crise financière” (in French, with O. Oullier), Le Figaro, Op-Ed, Jan. 28, 2008.
• What Is the State of U.S. Disaster-Preparedness?” New York Times “Freakonomics Quorum,” Nov. 9, 2007.
• “The Other Energy Crisis” (with Debra Decker), Booz|Allen|Hamilton Leading Ideas, Sept. 4, 2007.
• “Ensuring Global Uranium Supplies,” (with Debra Decker), International Herald Tribune, Op-Ed, Dec.22, 2006.
• “Facing Global Risks: Relearning How to Govern the World?,” (in French, with T. Malleret), Le Figaro, Op-Ed, Nov.13, 2006
• “A New Era Calls for a New Model,” (with P. Lagadec) International Herald Tribune, Op-Ed, Nov. 1, 2005.
• “The United States at a Crossroads,” (in French), Le Figaro, Op-Ed, Sept. 11, 2005.
• “Katrina, the Day After,” (in French), Le Monde, Op-Ed, Sept. 4-5, 2005.

Recent Knowledge@Wharton contributions

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• “Changes in the Air: What Will Come of the Copenhagen Climate Summit?” (podcast) Knowledge@Wharton, Dec 9, 2009.
• “One War We Shouldn’t Avoid: A New Approach to Reducing the Cost of Future Catastrophes,” (podcast) Knowledge@Wharton podcast July 8, 2009.
• “Has the Response to Swine Flu Been Too Feverish?” Knowledge@Wharton, May 13, 2009.
• “Re-thinking Risk Management: Why the Mindset Matters More Than the Model,” Knowledge@Wharton, April 15, 2009.
• “Katrina, 9/11, Global Recession: Moving Beyond Old Thinking about New Risks,” Knowledge@Wharton, Feb. 18, 2009
• “View from Dalian, China: The New Risk Architecture and Our Growing Interdependence,” Knowledge@Wharton, December 12, 2007.
• “A New Plan to Insure the Supply — and Safe Use — of Uranium in the Nuclear Energy Market,” Knowledge@Wharton, April 18, 2007.
• “When Local Risks Become Global Risks, and How We Can Minimize Them,” Knowledge@Wharton, March 21, 2007.

Selected speeches in recent years (public talks only)

2010-

The Brookings Institution. Washington, DC. October 19, 2010. (forthcoming)

The Wharton School, Wharton Risk Center’s Managing and Financing Extreme Events project. Annual meeting. Philadelphia, PA. September 30-october 1, 2010. (forthcoming)

ILS Summit – Guest speaker – Speech on “Dealing with the Extra-Ordinary” – Hamilton, Bermuda, July 14-17, 2010.

OECD – “Terrorism Insurance Markets in 2010: Where Do We Stand?” – Paris, France – June 1 and 2, 2010.

National Bureau of Economic Research – Boston, MA – May 21, 2010.

World Economic Forum – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Africa) – May 5-8, 2010.

Young Global Leaders Annual Meeting – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Africa) – May 2-5, 2010.

Senator Wicker’s Roundatble – Speech on “Developping Strategies to Overcome the Challenges of Catastrophe Risks: A Proposal for Long-Term Insurance” – Gulfport, Mississippi – April 8, 2010.

Wharton Houston Club – Speech on “At War with the Weather” – Houston, Texas – April 7, 2010.

Social Impact Conference on the Environment, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA – March 19, 2010.

Initiative for Global Environment Leadership Annual Summit, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March 19, 2010.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Annual Network Summit, Speech on “Economic Resilience”, Washington, DC, March 10, 2010.

University of Southern California, “Risk Perception and Risk-Related Behaviors: Anticipating and Responding to Crisis”, Los Angeles, California, March 5-6, 2010.

Carnegie Hall, Unique Event: Arts Leadership in Focus (moderator) (MORE INFO CLICK HERE) (Moderator), New York City, February 18, 2010

American Economic Association (AEA) “Economics of Security” presenting “Corporate Demand for Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks” Atlanta, Georgia, January 4, 2010.

-2009-

Climate-related Catastrophes, Financial Innovations and Development: J-30 before Copenhagen (Co-organizer), Ecole Polytechnique; AXA Chair on Insurance of Extreme Events; EDF Chair on Sustainable Development – Paris, France, November 1, 2009.

Second Conference of the OECD International Network on the Financial Management of Large-scale Catastrophes, Bangkok, Thailand, September 24-25, 2009.

Young Global Leaders’ Summit, Dalian, People’s Republic of China, September 8-12, 2009.

National Bureau of Economic Research, Economics of National Security, Cambridge, MA July 24, 2009.

World Economic Forum: Global Leadership Fellows Programme on Globalization, Catastrophe Risk Management, The Wharton School, Philadelphia PA, July 8, 2009.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Forum, Paris, France, June 11-12, 2009.

National Bureau of Economic Research, Insurance Project Workshop, Cambridge, MA, June 9-10, 2009.

Climate Decision Making Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May 19-20, 2009.

Property Claim Services/Insurance Services Office, Catastrophe Conference, Miami, FL, May 3-6, 2009.

Florida Catastrophic Storm Risk Management Center, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, April 23, 2009.

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg Austria, March 9-10, 2009.

International Seminar at the University of Innsbruck, Adaptation to Climate Change: The Role of Insurance, March 6-7, 2009.

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting,Davos, Switzerland, January 26-February 1, 2009.

Young Global Leaders Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 28-February 1, 2009.

American Enterprise Institute, Private Markets and Public Insurance Programs, Washington DC, January 15, 2009.

-2008-

The “Irrational Economist” Conference, (Co-Organizer) The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA, December 4-5, 2008.

World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. November 7-9, 2008.

World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China. September 25-29, 2008.

OECD/UNISDR Senior Symposium on Disaster Preparedness and Financing, Beijing, China. September 27-28, 2008

European Commission Network for the Economic Analysis of Terrorism (NEAT) The Economic Analysis of Terrorism: The Current State of Policy-Making and Research. Brussels. September 22, 2008.

University of Southern California/Wharton Risk Center, “Behavioral Economics and Terrorism Risks” Los Angeles, CA. August 15, 2008.

OECD/U.S. Treasury International Conference on Financial Education, Washington, DC. May 28, 2008.

University of Texas at Dallas, Conference on Terrorism and Policy, Dallas, TX. May 15, 2008.

Annual Meeting of the NBER Insurance Project, Cambridge, MA. May 9, 2008.

Florida Catastrophic Storm Risk Management Center, 2008 Speaker Series, Florida State University, March 6, 2008.

American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Invited Session, “Economics of Security Externalities.” New Orleans, LA. January 4-6, 2008.

-2007-

Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Science Po) “Managing Large-Scale Risks in a New Era of Catastrophes.” Joint Ecole Polytechnique-IDDRI Conference seminar series. France. November 13, 2007.

New School of Social Research, Conference on “Disasters: Recipes and Remedies,” Presentation on “The Calculus of Risk vs. Preparedness.” New York City. November 1-2, 2007.

Princeton University, “Behavioral Foundations of Policy.” Princeton, NJ. October 19-20, 2007.

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Fall 2007 Risk Regulation Seminar Series, Presentation of “Managing Large-Scale Risks in a New Era of Catastrophes.” September 25, 2007.

Wharton Applied Economic Workshop, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, “Puzzling Evidence from Terrorism Insurance Markets.” August 29, 2007.

University of Southern California, Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), “The Economics of Global Risks,” 4th CREATE Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA. August 14-16, 2007.

NBER Summer Institute, NBER Group on Economics of National Security (Martin Feldstein, organizer), “Puzzling Evidence from Terrorism Insurance Markets.” Boston, MA. July 26-27, 2007.

Chicago Actuarial Association, Chicago Chapter, Professional Risk Managers’ International Association, and Midwest Actuarial Forum, Enterprise Risk Management, Global Risks and Prediction Markets, presentation on “Dealing with the Extra-Ordinary: Managing and Financing Global Risks in a Growing Interdependent World,” Chicago, IL. June 28, 2007.

Center for American Progress, “Managing Economic Risk in the Age of Terror: The Role of Government in the Private Insurance Market.” Washington, DC. May 21, 2007.

Toulouse School of Economics, “Environmental Sustainability and Corporate Behavior.” Toulouse, France. June 1-2, 2007.

Ecole Polytechnique-ADEME, “Managing Large-Scale Disasters in a World-Peak Zone.” Paris, France. March 23, 2007.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Annual Meeting, Invited session, “America’s Achilles Heel: Critical Infrastructure Services in Time of Disaster.” San Francisco, CA. February 15-19, 2007.

-2006-

Council of Foreign Relations, “Nuclear Security and the Insurance Industry” (with Debra Decker, Harvard). New York, NY. December 15, 2006.

Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, “Assurances of Supply and Non-Proliferation: How Could the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Benefit from Working with the Insurance/Finance Industry?” Boston, MA. November 17, 2006.

National Tax Association (99th Annual Conference), “Disasters: Implications for Public Finance and Public Policy.” Boston, MA. November 17, 2006.

University of Pennsylvania Law School, “Climate Change, Insurability of Large-Scale Disasters and the Emerging Liability Challenge,” Symposium on Responses to Global Warming: The Law, Economics, and Science of Climate Change. Philadelphia, PA. November 16-17, 2006.

INFORMS Meeting, “The Role of Insurance in Managing Large-Scale Natural Disasters.” Session on Natural Disasters, Pittsburgh, PA. November 7, 2006.

Wharton Risk Center/ISTAR/Lockheed Martin, “Global Supply Chain Security” (organizer), Philadelphia, PA. November 3, 2006.

University of Minnesota, “Homeland Security and Food Safety.” Minneapolis, MN. November 1, 2006.University of Southern California, Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), “Economics Assessment of Hurricane Katrina. 3rd Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA. August 2006.

NBER Summer Institute, Group on Economics of National Security (Martin Feldstein, organizer), Cambridge, MA. July 2006.

Organization for the Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Conference on “Mitigation of Large-Scale Disasters.” Insurance and Pension Funds Committee, Geneva, Switzerland. July 2006.

Carnegie Mellon/Wharton, Joint Conference on “Insurance and Global Warming” (co-organizer), Washington, DC. May 2006.

Wharton, Conference on “Interdependent Security.” Philadelphia, PA. May 2006.

NBER, Annual Meeting of the Insurance Group. Cambridge, MA. February 2006.

Ecole Polytechnique-EDF, Conference on Protection of Critical Infrastructure and Financing Extreme Events (organizer). Paris, France. February 2006.