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Full Name | Company | Job Title | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
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Morten Jensen | Sedgwick | Technical Manager, Consulting Engineer Renewable Energy | - | Workshop: Renewable energy technology and the insurance market | |
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 | |
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 | |
Clive Trencher | AGCS | Senior Risk Consultant – Construction | Clive Trencher is a Senior Risk Consultant at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGSC) focusing on Construction risks. Drawing on 40 years of engineering experience, in his role Clive advises on risk transfer and loss prevention solutions for large construction project in the UK and Globally. | Workshop: ESG risk management | |
David Pryce | Fenchurch Law | Senior Partner | David was a founding partner of Fenchurch Law, which was the first law firm in the UK to specialise exclusively in representing policyholders in insurance coverage disputes. Ranked as a leading individual by both Legal 500 and Chambers, David leads Fenchurch Law’s Reinsurance & International Risk practice group and has a particular focus on insurance disputes arising out of large construction projects both in the UK and abroad. | Professional indemnity case study: Causation & Aggregation - A Deep Dive | |
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 | |
Dermot Skinnader | Aviva & CIREG member | Senior Construction Risk Consultant | Dermot is a Chartered Civil Engineer (CEng MICE) responsible for the development and implementation of risk management programmes for CAR & EAR projects primarily across Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. He has been in the London Market for seven years, with his industry experience prior to this involving the delivery of heavy civil engineering and marine renewable energy projects. | Workshop: Water leak management | |
Steven Carney | Copenhagen Infrastructure Service Company (CISC) | Risk and Insurance Specialist | Steven is an insurance specialist at CISC, who deliver construction and operational services to CIPs market leading greenfield renewable pipeline of approximately 120 GW of energy projects across technologies and geographies. | Presentation & panel discussion: Climate change changing construction | |
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 | |
David Ward | Sedgwick | Practice Group Leader (Global Renewables) | - | Workshop: Renewable energy technology and the insurance market | |
Isabelle Kowalski | SCOR & Executive Committee Member, IMIA | P&C | Head of SBS 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 | |
Ante Petricevic | Aon | Managing Director | - | Presentation: Professional Indemnity Coverage | |
mark peterson | aon | Managing Director | - | Presentation: Professional Indemnity Coverage | |
Peter Kapler | Aon | Managing Director | Peter heads up Aon’s Canadian Performance Security practice group and manages the Subcontractor Default Insurance (SDI) product in Canada. Building on a decade of Surety underwriting, Peter’s responsibilities include Surety and SDI account management, customisation of risk transfer solutions, broking, development of risk mitigation programs, consultations on prequalification program implementation, as well as risk control, operational best practices and loss avoidance. | Presentation & panel discussion: Supply chain risk | |
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 | |
Nicolas Lucas | Allianz Global Investors | Infrastructure Debt Director | Nicolas Lucas is a senior portfolio manager in the infrastructure debt platform of Allianz Global Investors. Nicolas invests in the Infrastructure, Transport, Utilities, Energy and Renewables sectors (including greenfield and brownfield), in BBB+ to BB- transactions (project financings, acquisition financings, refinancings). | Presentation: Financing - the investor's perspective | |
Jose Antonio Carbonero | BBVA | Head of Structured Finance, UK & Northern Europe | Jose Antonio Carbonero joined BBVA in 2001. Since 2019 he has been the Head of Structured Finance in the UK and Northern Europe. His team is responsible for advising, structuring, underwriting and arranging complex structured financing, including project finance (ie. limited and non-recourse finance), leveraged finance and other specialised finance. | Presentation: Financing - the investor's perspective | |
Charles Winter | Aon | Head of Strategic Risk Consulting | - | Workshop: Risk identification and modelling | |
Meg Chaperon | Descartes Underwriting | Head of Marketing & Communications | Before joining Descartes, Meg worked as a Product Manager in Silicon Valley, where she led go-to-market strategy and international expansion efforts in APAC and EMEA markets. Prior to that, she worked at the forefront of climate science and international climate negotiations as a consultant in Washington DC, Africa, and the Pacific. | Workshop: Parametric insurance | |
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 |