| Full Name | Company | Job Title | Speaking At | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Bond | Marsh | Head of Climate and Sustainability Insurance Innovation | Panel discussion: The transition to net zero and underwriting strategy |  | With more than 20 years’ insurance industry experience, Ryan is responsible for leading the global development of insurance solutions that support Marsh’s clients through the climate transition and help them achieve their commitments around sustainability and climate change. Prior to his current role, he was most recently Chief Executive, UK and Ireland, of Bowring Marsh, Marsh’s international placement business. Mr. Bond is a board member of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) and is also Chair of BIBA’s International & Wholesale Advisory Board. |
| William Butler | Marsh | Vice President – PI Placement | Panel discussion: ESG data for insurers – how is it used? |  | - |
| Nadine Coudel | Howden | Head of Climate and Nature-related Liability | Panel discussion: The growing threat of litigation |  | As a France-based Director in Howden’s Climate Risk and Resilience Team, Nadine is responsible for the climate and nature-related liability work, including stakeholder engagement, collaboration with legal and academic partners, development of advisory and analytics products and services, team management, and the delivery of client projects. Nadine advises on how legal risks, that may relate to both low-carbon transition risks and physical climate risks, can arise from new climate-related regulations, law and litigation, as well as compliance with existing law and may impact on the business and financial services sectors. |
| Gabrielle Durisch | Allianz Commercial | Global Head of Sustainability Solutions | Panel discussion: The transition to net zero and underwriting strategy |  | Gabrielle is leading Allianz Commercial’s ESG and Sustainability business strategy and is working with industry experts across Allianz Commercial, as well as with customers and brokers to design and develop innovative products and services to support the transition to net zero and broader sustainability objectives – an essential element to this is identifying key partnerships. Prior to joining Allianz, Gabrielle held various roles at Zurich Insurance in finance, claims and group underwriting – the last of which was Head of Sustainability for Commercial Insurance, where she successfully embedded sustainability competencies across the organisation. |
| Luca Firrito | CRIF | Head of Customer Partnerships | Panel discussion: ESG data for insurers – how is it used? |  | Luca Firrito is an industry expert with over 20 years’ experience. He has spearheaded the creation of new cutting-edge insurance and financial services. Leading a team of specialists, Luca championed the implementation of CRIF solutions across international boundaries, primarily in the UK market. Today, he drives business development with an unwavering enthusiasm and dedication to digital innovation, from ideation to solution delivery. |
| Andrew Forsyth | Zurich Resilience Solutions UK | Head of Climate and Sustainability | Presentation & panel discussion: Climate adaptation – creating resilience |  | Andrew joined Zurich Risk Engineering in 2023 and leads the strategic direction of the UK Climate Resilience practice. In this leadership role, he serves customers and advises across most major sectors, working with them to add value to their business proposition by helping them identify, understand and act upon physical climate risks and broader sustainability issues. A true advocate for sustainable practices, Andrew has played a pivotal role in supporting organisations on their resilience journey in the face of environmental uncertainties and every changing circumstances. Through a keen understanding of both the environmental and business landscapes, Andrew has demonstrated how sustainable practices can be a catalyst for growth and long-term success. |
| Steve Fowler | University of West London | Governor/Chair Risk Audit Committee | Presentation & panel discussion: Climate adaptation – creating resilience |  | A graduate in chemistry from Oxford University, Steve’s early career was spent as a risk engineer. Steve subsequently served as Chief Information Officer and Business Transformation Director at the insurer, RSA. This was followed by twelve years as CEO at the Institute of Risk Management, achieving ten-fold growth and an international reputation. Today, Steve is in demand as a speaker, author and very 'hands on' trainer and advisor bringing what can be very technical subjects to life with lots of practical examples. Steve is actively involved with several risk, safety and health organisations and is a Governor at the award-winning University of West London where he also chairs the Audit and Risk Committee. |
| Alexis Garatti | Allianz Trade | Climate Change Manager | Workshop: ESG ratings – in person only |  | - |
| Adrian Jenner | Zurich UK | Head of Specialty Lines | Workshop: ESG risks and D&O liability |  | Adrian has over 35 years’ experience in the London, Lloyds, company and US domestic insurance markets. He has been a broker, a client adviser and a business developer and more latterly he has worked on the underwriter side of the industry. He has worked on insurance contracts in over 60 countries with clients ranging from some of the world’s largest companies like Apple, Amazon, BP to sole principles for their personal Professional Indemnity Insurance, from Iceland to Australia and Russia to Silicon Valley in the USA. D&O remains his passion and he welcomes the opportunity to share with you his thoughts around the future risk to companies, their boards and senior leaders as climate and social agenda changes the way we will work, operate, and perform in our businesses. |
| Michel Josset | Forvia, and Director, AMRAE | Risk Manager | Workshop: Modelling and assessing climate risks Presentation & panel discussion: Climate adaptation – creating resilience |  | - |
| Wynne Lawrence | Clyde & Co | Partner | Panel discussion: The growing threat of litigation Workshop: ESG reporting – how to avoid misstatements and misreporting – in person only |  | Wynne is a founding member of the firm’s cross-disciplinary Climate Risk and Resilience practice group. Wynne’s team brings together industry-specific expertise and in-depth knowledge of ESG issues to advise on sustainability matters. In her climate change consultancy work, Wynne advises insurers and companies in other industries (shipping, aviation, trade and commodities, natural resources) on climate liability risk exposures, and arranges bespoke seminars and workshops on climate-related liability risks to businesses, directors and officers, including in line with the Bank of England’s CBES (Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenario). |
| Ben Luckhurst | Sustainable Fitch | Associate Director | Workshop: ESG ratings – in person only |  | - |
| Martin Massey | Institute of Risk Management | Chair of Climate Change Committee | Panel discussion: The transition to net zero and underwriting strategy Presentation & panel discussion: Climate adaptation – creating resilience |  | Martin has had a long and distinguished career in the insurance sector working for leading global organisations including Swiss Re, AIG, WTW, Aon and Marsh and has a strong technical background in actuarial science and enterprise risk management and holds an MBA in which his dissertation was in climate change. Before setting up his own consultancy company OneRisk Consulting in 2020 he was a Chief Risk Officer for a Lloyds syndicate in London. He is currently the Chair of IRM’s climate change committee and an academic lead at Cambridge University having designed an online course in 2023 for executives in ESG risk management. |
| Chandler Morris | Allianz Commercial | Regional Head of Environmental Impairment Liability | Panel discussion: The next big thing – nature risk |  | Chandler is Regional Head of Environmental Impairment Liability at Allianz Commercial - overseeing the underwriting, marketing, and distribution of environmental insurance products and services across the region. She has close to 10 years of experience in the insurance industry, with a focus on environmental risk management, complex account management, and casualty underwriting. Her focus is to help clients protect their assets and reputation from environmental liabilities, while advancing the environmental and social goals of Allianz. She has a Master of Science in Environment and Resource Management from Arizona State University. |
| Justin Mundy | Howden | Managing Director, Climate Risk & Resilience | Panel discussion: The next big thing – nature risk |  | - |
| Valentina Paduano | Dedalus and Board Member, Vice President, FERMA and Board Member, ANRA | Chief Risk & Compliance Officer | Presentation: ESG – A chance to shine |  | - |
| Jo Paisley | GARP Risk Institute | President | Panel discussion: The next big thing – nature risk |  | Jo Paisley is President of the GARP Risk Institute, Global Association of Risk Professionals, where she heads up GARP's thought leadership on climate, nature and sustainability. Set up in early 2018, the Institute works across all risk disciplines, with Jo’s focus to date on climate and nature risk management and scenario analysis, stress testing and operational resilience. Her career began at the Bank of England where she worked in a variety of roles, across macroeconomics, statistics, supervision and risk. Her last role was as a Director of the Supervisory Risk Specialists Division within the Prudential Regulation Authority, where she was heavily involved in the design and execution of the UK’s first concurrent stress test in 2014. She left the Bank in 2015 and joined HSBC as their Global Head of Stress Testing. |
| John Scott | Zurich Insurance Group | Head of Sustainability Risk | Keynote address: The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2024 – Think global, act local |  | John joined Zurich in 2001 becoming Head of Risk Insight in 2007 and was Chief Risk Officer for Zurich’s Global Corporate and Commercial Insurance businesses from 2009 to 2017. He took on his current role in 2018. John leads the Group’s engagement on sustainability risk, both internally and externally as the way Zurich delivers its purpose and values. He is on the Advisory Board to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report and has contributed to every WEF Global Risk Report since 2005. He is also on the WEF Advisory Board for the Energy Transition Initiative and the IEA (International Energy Agency) Finance Institution Advisory Board, fostering a dialogue between the IEA and the finance community on clean energy transitions. |
| Geoff Summerhayes | Pollination | Senior Advisor | Panel discussion: The next big thing – nature risk |  | Geoff is Chair of Zurich Australia and New Zealand, Chair of Heartland Bank Australia, Senior Advisor at Pollination Group, Chair of Beyond Zero Emissions and Chairs AICD’s Climate Governance Initiative. He is renowned for his leadership in raising awareness of climate change financial risk in Australia and globally. He was formerly an Executive Board member of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), and one of his most influential roles was inaugural chair of the Council of Financial Regulators Working Group on Climate Change, whose members include APRA, ASIC, RBA and Treasury. |
| Tom Thornberry | Zurich Insurance Company | Chief Claims Officer | Panel discussion: The growing threat of litigation |  | Tom started his career at Zurich in 2011, working in Financial Lines Underwriting. Moving to claims a year later, he worked within the UK Financial Lines team and completed his legal qualifications whilst seconded to DAC Beachcroft. In 2015, he participated in a two-year secondment supporting the Global Head of Financial Lines Claims before returning to the UK and helping create the Financial Lines Claims ‘centre of excellence’. In 2018 Tom headed up Zurich’s UK Construction Claims team. During his tenure, he was heavily involved in Zurich’s Property response to the Covid-19 crisis. In November 2020, Tom was appointed Global Head of Financial Lines Claims for Zurich, with responsibility for all aspects of Financial Lines Claims, Credit Lines, and Cyber across Zurich globally. |
