European Windstorm High Definition (HD) Models Unify Climate Modeling to Enhance Risk Selection Across the Continent

Laurent Marescot Senior Director, Market and Product Specialists at Moody's RMS

Laurent is a catastrophe risk management expert at Moody's RMS, advising some of the largest companies in the (re)insurance industry how to best manage their nat cat, agriculture, cyber and terrorism risks. He also interacts as an expert for governmental and regulatory authorities. Laurent initially joined Moody's RMS in 2008 as part of the account management team, servicing the European (re)insurance and ILS market. He then headed the model product management group for all EMEA and APAC climatic/weather risk perils, such as windstorm, typhoon, severe convective storm and flood, as well as Moody's RMS global agricultural risk.

Prior to Moody's RMS, Laurent worked 3 years at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) as a Research Associate and Lecturer, managing multidisciplinary research projects. Laurent still lectures regularly on catastrophe modeling and insurance risk quantification at universities and gives seminars and invited talks in international industry conferences. Laurent co-authored numerous industry publications, peer-reviewed scientific articles and proceeding papers. He holds an MSc in Geology from the University of Lausanne and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Lausanne and the University of Nantes.

Giovanni Leoncini Senior Product Manager at Moody's RMS

Giovanni has been working in the (re)insurance industry for the last 10 years with R&D roles for Property and Casualty at Zurich Insurance and Aspen Re. Previously he was a Researcher at the Met Office and the University of Reading where he focused on convective scale ensembles.

He obtained his PhD in Meteorology from Colorado State University and an MSc from San Jose State University and has earned his Laurea in Physics from the University of Bologna.