Selected Events

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2013

• Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) Annual Conference. Keynote Address on Dealing with the Extra-Ordinary: From Risk Management to Value Creation. Orlando, Florida. November 4, 2013.
• CORENET Eastern Regional Summit 2013. Resource Strategies for Resilient Corporate Real Estate Portfolios. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. June 18, 2013.
• National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) International Forum. Role of Insurance as Disaster Risk Management Tool. Panel discussion moderated by Kevin McCarty, Insurance Commissioner of Florida. Washington, DC. May 9, 2013.
• Zurich Classic. Responding by Storm–Disaster Management: Not if but when. Other speakers include former US President Bill Clinton. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 27-28, 2013.
• U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, Insurance Group Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. April 13-14, 2013.
• SwissRe’s U.S. Public Policy Dialogue. Opening Session.Catastrophe Risks, Business Opportunities and Public Policies. Washington, DC. March 26, 2013.
• Canadian Water Network Annual Conference. Keynote on Managing and Financing Extreme Events. Ottawa, Ontario. March 20, 2013.
• AIG Executive Summit. Opening Session.Enhancing Adaptation to Extreme Events. Stowe Mountain, Vermont. March 12-13, 2013.
• World Economic Forum-Annual Meeting. Building Resilience: Wharton IdeasLab. – Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013.

2012

• Risk & Insurance. Global Risks 2013. Webinar sponsored by Zurich – December 20, 2012.
• G20. Addressing Consumers Needs. The Case of Financial Protection against Catastrophes. Mexico City, Mexico – November 3, 2012.
• G20 Steering Group. Challenges of Disaster Risk Assessment and Financing in G20 and non-G20 countries.. Mexico City, Mexico – September 21, 2012.
• Canadian Institute of Actuaries. Managing Global Risks in a New Era of Catastrophes. Annual Conference, Keynote speech. Toronto, Canada – September 20, 2012.
• National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) Policy Annual Conference. The Future of terrorism risk insurance: Where do we go from here? Washington, DC – September 12, 2012.
• US Congress. Testimony on “TRIA at 10 years: the future of terrorism risk insurance”. Washington, DC – September 11, 2012.
• Gates Foundation. Managing Global Risks. Seattle, WA – May 23, 2012.
• The World Bank. Implementing an National Risk Management Strategy: Insights from Ongoing Work with the Kingdom of Morocco. Washington, DC – May 15, 2012.
• U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) University Conference on Catastrophe Risks and Insurance. Co-organizer with Howard Kunreuther (Wharton) and Ken Froot (Harvard). Boston, MA – May 10-11, 2012.
• Copenhagen Consensus 2012 Conference. A Proposal for Reducing Natural Disaster Loss around the World: Allocating $75 billion. (joint work with H. Kunreuther). Copenhagen, Denmark – May 8, 2012.
• Annual Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Conference. Opening Keynote Speech on the Future of Catastrophe Financing in America. Austin, Texas – May 7, 2012.
• World Economic Forum in Mexico. Puerto Vallerta, Mexico – April 15-17, 2012.
• French Review of Economic Studies. Special Conference in Honor of Professor Claude Henry (Science Po/Columbia University) recipient of the 2012 “Revue Economique” award. Towards an Economics Discipline of Global Risks, Maison des Sciences économiques – Paris, France – March 8, 2012.
• French Treasury and French Association for the Protection against Natural Disasters. USA-2001-2011: Lessons from Decade of Disasters. French Senate, Palais du Luxembourg – Paris, France – March 7, 2012.
• French Treasury and French Association for the Protection against Natural Disasters. One Year after Fukushima: Nuclear Technology between Natural Disasters and Terrorism Threats. French Senate, Palais du Luxembourg – Paris, France – March 7, 2012.
• Annual Meeting of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA). The Future of Flood Insurance in the US. Orlando, Florida – February 14, 2012.
• World Bank International Conference on Green Growth Strategies. Impact of Behavioral Issues on Green Growth Policies and Weather-Related Disaster Reduction in Developing Countries (jointly with H. Kunreuther. Mexico City, Mexico – January 14, 2012.

2011

• Georgia State University. Reforming the US National Flood Insurance Program. Atlanta, GA – November 18, 2011.
• University of Pennsylvania. Disasters: What to do? Philadelphia, PA – November 10, 2011.
• American Insurance Association. The future of catastrophe risk financing. Washington, DC – November 8, 2011.
• Government of Morocco. Government options for catastrophe risk financing. Rabat, Morocco – November 3, 2011.
• Brokers Link – Global Conference. Dealing with the Extra-Ordinary. Miami, Florida – October 28, 2011.
• Canadian Institutional Investment Summit The New Risk Architecture. Gatineau-Ottawa, QC, Canada – October 17-19, 2011.
• World Economic Forum. Annual meeting of the New Champions. Dalian, China – September 13-17, 2011.
• World Economic Forum. Meeting of the Young Global Leaders. Dalian, China – September 11-12, 2011.
• American Risk and Insurance Association. Annual meeting. San Diego, California – August 8-10, 2011.
• International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management. Annual Conference. Keynote speaker. Los Angeles, California – July 17, 2011.
• OECD International Conference on Managing and Financing Major Earthquakes: From Chile, New Zealand to Japan and Beyond. Paris, France. OECD headquarters – June 23-24, 2011.
• World Bank‘s Government Borrowers Forum 2011. Expanding Risk Management Solutions for Sovereigns. . Santiago, Chile. Ministry of Finance of Chile. – May 9-12, 2011.
• Stanford University. How Organizations Think About the Unthinkable: A Risk Management Workshop about Avoiding, Managing and Mitigating Crises. University of California, Washington D.C. – April 19, 2011.
• Young Presidents Organization (YPO). The Best of Wharton. Opening address by Dr. Michel-Kerjan on “Dealing with the Extra-Ordinary”. Hyatt Hotel, Philadelphia, PA – April 14, 2011.
• 9th Annual Women’s World Banking (WWB) Microfinance and the Capital Markets Conference. J.P. Morgan, 383 Madison Avenue, New York. Keynote address by Dr. Erwann Michel-Kerjan. – April 6, 7, 2011.
• CPCU – Golden Gate Chapter – 62nd Annual All Industry Day. San Francisco, California, February 25, 2011. (reservation is required)
• World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting-Davos 2011, January 24-30, 2011. Davos, Switzerland.

2010

• The Penn Symposium on Fostering and Financing Long-Term Investments in Prevention and Protection, Wharton Risk Management Center, Penn School of Medicine, Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania, December 13-14, 2010.
• Financial Times – Chartis Conference, Emerging Risks for Cross Border Business: Strategies for Evolving Multinational Liabilities, New York City, November 30, 2010.
• Penn Law Risk Regulation Seminar Series – University of Pennsylvania Law School and Wharton School. November 16, 2010. Speech on “Long term strategy to deal with extreme events.”
• World Economic Forum on the Middle-East and North Africa. Morocco, October 27-29, 2010.
• The Brookings Institution. Washington, DC. October 19, 2010.
• The Wharton School, Wharton Risk Center’s Managing and Financing Extreme Events project. Annual meeting. Philadelphia, PA. September 30-October 1, 2010.
  University of Pennsylvania – Psychology department – Presentation on a new proposal for multi-year flood insurance contracts. Philadelphia, PA – September 15, 2010.
• Insurance-Linked Securities (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. OECD Headquarters. – June 1 and 2, 2010.
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) – 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 Roundtable – Speech on “Developing 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.
• The Wharton School. Social Impact Conference on the Environment, 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.
• U.S. 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

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