| Full Name | Company | Job Title | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amar Rahman | Zurich Insurance Co Ltd | Global head - climate resilience |  | Amar leads a team supporting customers in identifying, evaluating and improving physical and operational resilience related to natural hazards and climate change. Prior to joining Zurich Insurance in 2011 he held several roles in the civil engineering sector, specialising in large-scale infrastructure projects. He developed the natural hazards resilience service after the 2011 Thailand floods and was also the global head of the natural hazards risk engineering technical centre. | Presentation & panel discussion: Climate change changing construction |
| Martin Clark | Zurich Insurance Co Ltd | Global Head of Property and Energy Claims |  | Martin has been in the insurance industry since 1987. He re-joined the Zurich group in July 2015 and is responsible for property, energy and engineering claims for the group. He has worked in the international claims arena for the last 20 plus years and has experience in managing underwriting and global broking advocate claims teams. He has handled some of the markets largest and more complex claims over recent years. | Presentation & panel discussion: Claims trends and claims inflation |
| Robert Innes | Zurich | Senior Risk Engineer – Construction |  | Robert is a Chartered Civil Engineer (ICE) with 10 years industry experience for Arup and six years working for Zurich Insurance Company. He currently leads the UK Construction and Power Generation Risk Engineering Team for Zurich Resilience Solutions. | Presentation & panel discussion: New materials - new risks |
| Adrian Cooney | Turner & Townsend | Project Director, Risk |  | Adrian has been leading risk management support on major capital programmes for over 15 years across many sectors including rail and aviation. He is a Technical Specialist at the IRM and is known for his expertise in Quantitative Risk modelling. Adrian is currently the Risk Management Lead for the Capital Delivery portfolio at Heathrow Airport. | Presentation & panel discussion: New materials - new risks |
| Barbara van Berkum | TBI Holdings | Insurance Manager |  | Barbara has worked as insurance manager for TBI Holdings B.V. since October 2020. Previously she worked for over 5 years as a senior underwriter for AIG, specialising in analysing environmental risks of large businesses worldwide. She is also an active member of NARIM, the Dutch association of risk & insurance managers and is coordinator of the Knowledge Center Sustainability. | Presentation: Mass timber case study |
| Hardeep Khela | Swiss Re Corporate Solutions | Senior Engineering Underwriter |  | Hardeep Khela has worked at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions for the past 6 years. He has broad underwriting experience, including as a lead, across a range of international infrastructure, heavy industry and renewable energy projects. Prior to joining Swiss Re, he spent 6 years in the civil engineering industry with Mott Macdonald followed by 3 years as a Management Consultant in major capital projects. | Presentation & panel discussion: De-risking in construction - doing it the parametric way |
| Teresa Schorstein | Swiss Re Corporate Solutions | Senior Structurer |  | Teresa is a Senior Structurer at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Innovative Risk Solutions Team based in Zurich, Switzerland. She holds an Investment & Financial Risk Management Degree from Cass Business School London and Singapore Management University. With over 13 years or experience in the parametric space she has held various positions at re/insurance firms and insurtechs. | Presentation & panel discussion: De-risking in construction - doing it the parametric way |
| Cedric Wong | Swiss Re Corporate Solutions | Head of Engineering & Construction |  | - | Workshop: Tunnel Code of Practice report |
| Nick Wildgoose | Supplien Consulting | Director |  | Nick is a qualified accountant, supply chain and risk professional and has held a variety of global financial, procurement and commercial positions in several industry sectors. Working for companies such as PWC, Linde Group, The Virgin Group, Zurich Insurance Group and DHL Resilience360. He has served on the Board of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply which is the biggest procurement professional body in the world. He also served as a specialist advisor to the World Economic Forum and was Chairman of the Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council. | Presentation & panel discussion: Supply chain risk |
| Morten Jensen | Sedgwick | Technical Manager, Consulting Engineer Renewable Energy |  | - | Workshop: Renewable energy technology and the insurance market |
| David Ward | Sedgwick | Practice Group Leader (Global Renewables) |  | - | Workshop: Renewable energy technology and the insurance market |
| Peter Green | Sedgwick | Head of Global Construction & Engineering |  | Peter is a qualified and highly experienced practitioner specialising in all types of construction and engineering claims. He deals with a variety of contractors all risks, construction liability and PFI claims having gained a wealth of knowledge in policy and contract interpretation, including DE and LEG exclusions and JCT and NEC contracts. As head of the global construction and engineering team, Peter manages a team of over 25 dedicated construction adjusters, many of whom are multiskilled professionals in disciplines including legal practice, civil and structural engineering and quantity surveying. | Presentation & panel discussion: Claims trends and claims inflation |
| Isabelle Kowalski | SCOR & Executive Committee Member, IMIA | Global Head Construction |  | Isabelle has worked for 27 years in the construction world, including six years as civil engineer and 21 years in the insurance and reinsurance industry. Since 2019 she has been Global Head Construction at SCOR Specialty Insurance, a member of the IMIA Executive committee, and is engaged in a number of working groups on ESG matters. She gained her experience in construction as site superintendent with Spie Batignolles and VINCI, as senior construction underwriter at SCOR, being lead market on a number of large projects around the world, and as senior practice leader at AXA Corporate Solutions, managing large corporate accounts on all construction lines. | Presentation & panel discussion: People risk talent gap |
| Joe Warner | SCOR | EMEA Professional Lines |  | Joe has worked in the insurance industry as an underwriter for over 20 years. At SCOR he specialises in professional indemnity for large corporate risks, with a focus in the engineering, construction and legal sectors. Prior to SCOR, he worked for RSA, Hiscox, and MS Amlin. Through these roles he has underwritten a variety of professions from around the world, in the Lloyd’s, London, US and UK markets. | Presentation: Professional Indemnity Coverage |
| Mathieu Pasqual | SCOR | Deputy CUO, Specialty Insurance Alternative Solutions |  | Mathieu Pasqual leads the underwriting team in charge of structured solutions, captive reinsurance and parametric products for corporate clients globally. He joined SCOR in 2018, and previously worked at Swiss Re for 10 years, where he held various roles in client management, business development, corporate strategy and alternative risk transfer. Mathieu is based in Paris, he holds a Master in Management from ESCP Business School in Paris and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New-York. | Fireside chat: Captives on the rise |
| Tim Chapman | SCOR | Global Segment Leader Civil Works & EMEA Head of Construction |  | Tim is a Chartered Civil Engineer and is currently Global Segment Leader for Civil Works and EMEA Head of Construction for SCOR. He commenced his career working as an engineer in the construction and detailed design of large infrastructure projects and then as a risk control engineer before becoming an underwriter. | Presentation & panel discussion: New materials - new risks |
| Andy Kane | QBE Europe | Head of Construction & Engineering |  | Andy has 31 years insurance industry experience with 26 years in the London Market, primarily underwriting and management of construction and engineering including liability classes. Andy has been involved in many large projects in the UK and overseas in renewable energy, power generation, transport and oil and gas. Andy has an HND in Natural Sciences, MBA and DipCII. Andy sits on the executive committees of the London Engineering Group and the International Association of Engineering Insurers (IMIA). | Panel discussion: Construction market risk landscape Presentation & panel discussion: Claims trends and claims inflation |
| Chris Dulake | Mott MacDonald | Global Sector Leader, Transport |  | Chris is currently Global Rail and Transit Leader at Mott MacDonald. He was previously Engineering Director for HS2 Phase 1, having moved from the role of Chief Engineer for the Crossrail Programme, where he provided functional leadership to HS2 Phase 1 engineers and was Lead Engineer for the project. On Crossrail he acted as the engineering technical authority providing technical leadership for the programme. He was heavily involved in establishing the Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy, contract procurement strategy, delivering safety through innovation and design. | Panel discussion: Construction market risk landscape Presentation & panel discussion: New materials - new risks |
| Patrick Bravery | Liberty Specialty Markets | Global Head of Civil Construction |  | Patrick leads the underwriting of civil engineering construction projects in Liberty offices worldwide. Prior to joining Liberty, Patrick spent 13 years in construction underwriting at both Swiss Re and within Lloyds of London. In all his roles he has been primarily involved in the insurance of major construction projects worldwide, most notably as a lead underwriter for British Airport Authority’s Terminal 5 Heathrow, Land Transport Authority, Singapore Circle, Downtown and Cross Island Lines and Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York East Side Access and 2nd Avenue projects. | Workshop: Tunnel Code of Practice report |
| Stuart Large | Jupiter Intelligence | Business Development Director |  | Based just outside London, Stuart operates in the Construction, Industrial, Energy and Mining sectors, covering the Europe, Middle East and African markets for Jupiter Intelligence. Stuart has more than twenty years of experience in Business Development and Product Management, providing technical solutions to challenges in Energy, Security, Infrastructure, Smart Cities and Transportation. | Workshop: Climate change modelling - Future proofing infrastructure design and building Presentation & panel discussion: Climate change changing construction |
