2026 UNSW Workshop on Risk and Actuarial Frontiers: Climate Risk & Insurance
Friday 22 May | 9am - 5pm | UNSW HTH Seminar Room
The 2026 UNSW Workshop on Risk and Actuarial Frontiers: Climate Risk and Insurance will bring together UNSW experts and industry thought leaders to discuss a broad range of issues related to climate risk and insurance. The workshop is hosted by the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies at UNSW, in collaboration with the UNSW Innovations in Risk, Insurance and Superannuation (IRIS) Knowledge Hub, the UNSW Business Insights Institute (BII), and the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR). It will feature industry and research presentations, panel discussions, and networking opportunities for participants. Registration is free, but places are limited. We warmly welcome academics, research students, industry practitioners, and policymakers to attend.
Registration is free, but places are limited. We warmly welcome academics, research students, industry practitioners and policymakers to attend.
Date
Friday 22 May 2026
Host
The University of New South Wales
Date: Friday 22 May 2026
Venue: Ground Floor UNSW HTH Seminar Room
Please Register here before April 23:
UNSW Workshop on Risk and Actuarial Frontiers: Climate Risk & Insurance
Contacts
- Jinxia Zhu: jinxia.zhu@unsw.edu.au
- Alan Xian: a.xian@unsw.edu.au
- Paris Lome: p.lome@unsw.edu.au
Speakers
- Séverine Arnold – University of Lausanne
- Peiman Asadi – IAG
- Jonathan Barratt – CelsiusPro
- Vanessa Beenders – Actuaries Institute
- Alison Drill – Swiss Reinsurance Group
- Chetan Dwivedi – APRA
- Omid Ghasemi – UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response
- Sanaa Hobeichi – UNSW Climate Change Research Centre and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century
- Fei Huang – UNSW School of Risk and Actuarial Studies
- Tobias Huber – University of Georgia
- Rai Ibaceta – NSW Reconstruction Authority
- Francesca Kirby – Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation
- Patrick Laub – UNSW School of Risk and Actuarial Studies
- Xi Lin - Taylor Fry
- Kate Lyons – Independent
- Matteo Malavasi – UNSW School of Risk and Actuarial Studies
- Ramona Meyricke – Taylor Fry
- Rade Musulin – Finity Consulting
- Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick – ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society
- Tim Raupach – UNSW Climate Change Research Centre
- Nina Ridder – Suncorp
- Qihe Tang – UNSW School of Risk and Actuarial Studies
- Bernard Wong – UNSW School of Risk and Actuarial Studies
More details to be added
Program
Please note: Program details are tentative and subject to change.
Organizing committee:
- Katja Ignatieva
- Paris Lome
- Matteo Malavasi
- Yang Shen
- Alan Xian (Co-chair)
- Jinxia Zhu (Co-chair)