S5 Ep1: A practical guide to climate change for risk management actuaries - An introduction

Ahead of a longer discussion, Brandon Horowitz is joined by some of the authors of the IFoA's practical guide to climate change for risk management actuaries, to introduce the guide and how it can help actuaries in their work.

Brandon's guests are:

Wendy Walford (chair of the working party) is head of climate risk, includes how the risk management framework allows for climate risk and what climate risk is for a large financial institution.

Mayukh Gayen is a risk and modelling consultant and climate change analytics lead which involves understanding the modelling and understand requirements to modelling climate risk

Caroline Spence  is Head of Chief Risk Office is responsible for all oversight and risk reporting to the Management Committee and Board, and  providing key 2nd line support to projects such as Climate Change Risk Management Framework.

Peter Telford is Financial Risk Director for pension risk transfer business and the chair of the IFoA’s risk management board

Roelof Cortez is Director for climate change policy