Governance & executive leadership
I have served as a CEO and COO, as well as on boards and executive committees, with responsibilities spanning strategy, operating oversight, and organizational change.
Career · Publications · Media
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Here I share information about my career, publications, and media work.
I am an actuary with extensive international experience, a former insurance CEO and senior executive, and a consultant specializing in climate risk, natural catastrophes, reinsurance, and public policy. My work helps boards, executives, governments, and professional bodies understand uncertainty, strengthen resilience, and make better-informed decisions.
PrincipalFinity Consulting, Sydney
ChairIAA Climate & Sustainability Committee
Actuary of the YearActuaries Institute, 2023
Jarvis Farley Service AwardAmerican Academy of Actuaries, 2025
Technical depth with an executive perspective
My career spans insurance operations, actuarial consulting, reinsurance analytics, public policy, and international professional leadership. The common thread in my work is translating difficult risk questions into practical choices for decision-makers.
Risk, capital & resilience
My work includes enterprise risk management, catastrophe modeling, reinsurance, rating agency engagement, and the financing of extreme events.
Public policy & stakeholders
I have worked extensively in government relations, regulatory engagement, public insurance mechanisms, media communication, and complex stakeholder environments.
Climate & sustainability
I work across physical and transition risk, climate reporting, scenario analysis, adaptation, insurance affordability, community resilience, and leadership of the Australian Actuaries Climate Index.
A global perspective
Experience across markets, institutions, and disciplines
I have held senior roles in Australia and the United States and have worked with clients and professional bodies across Asia-Pacific and internationally.
- Senior insurance and reinsurance leadership
- Board, committee, and professional governance
- Government and regulatory engagement
- Research, writing, and public communication
- International climate and sustainability leadership
Selected recognition
Recognition for leadership, service, and contribution
- Jarvis Farley Service Award, 2025American Academy of Actuaries lifetime service recognition
- Actuary of the Year, 2023Co-winner, Actuaries Institute
- John “Rick” Ricciardelli Lifetime Achievement Award, 2006Florida Insurance Council
- Spencer Kimball Award, 1998National Association of Insurance Commissioners
Selected work
Thought leadership and public-facing climate leadership
My recent work focuses on geopolitical risk, polycrisis, climate risk, catastrophe modeling, insurance, reinsurance, public policy, and resilience.
Article · 2026
Managing Risk in a World of Polycrisis
Contingencies, July/August 2026.
View paper Article · 2026Climate scenarios: decision tools, not forecasts
Australian Institute of Company Directors, July 2026.
Read article Climate leadership · OngoingAustralian Actuaries Climate Index
I am a founding project team member, lead collator, and media spokesperson for the Actuaries Institute's quarterly measure of changing extreme weather and sea levels.
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