EVENTS

World leaders and representatives of over 190 countries will head to Egypt for COP27 and the resort area of Sharm El-Sheikh to attend a two-week summit to make plans to tackle climate change and planet Earth’s rising temperature.

Understanding the challenges and the need for collective action, Indonesia will focus on three main pillars for its G20 2022 Presidency namely: Global Health Architecture, Sustainable Energy Transition, and Digital Transformation.

“Tomorrow’s Actuary – Moving beyond traditional actuarial roles”

Are you in a traditional actuarial role and wondering what else you could do with your actuarial skillset? Daniel Clarke joins a great panel of actuaries who have used their actuarial knowledge and expertise to diversify their careers into a wide range of interesting and unusual opportunities. Hear them share their experiences which led them to their current roles and how their actuarial skills have fitted with what their employers are looking for.

Other guests include:

• Russell Gill, CRO of a start-up bank;

• Steven Mendel, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Bought by Many which is disrupting the world of pet insurance through the innovative use of tech;

• Sara Ronayne, Sara’s HM Treasury’s COP26 Private Finance Hub;

• Finance & Investment female actuary – name tba;

• Chair, Matt Gurden – Government Actuary’s Department – Chair of the profession’s Wider Fields WP, Member of RM Board.

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The Centre’s Board co-chair Kimberly Gire joins the #IDFSummit2022 to discuss how we create good triggers and plans in Disaster Risk Financing. This summit brings together leading figures addressing climate and other disaster related risks from the public and private sectors.

The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is the main global forum to assess and discuss progress on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

The seventh session of the Global Platform (GP2022) will be organised by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) from 23 to 28 May 2022, in Bali, Indonesia, hosted by the Government of Indonesia.

The event will be co-chaired by the Government of Indonesia and UNDRR.

3:00-3:45pm (UTC+2)

Digital Development Dialogue (3D) seminar is a monthly 45-minute online forum for policy and research exchange. Two speakers – one researcher and one practitioner – touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a meaningful dialogue across the theory & practice divide.

The Centre’s Daniel Clarke will be presenting alongside Veronika Bertram from KfW on the topic: "The Climate Crisis is Now - The Case of Development Insurance Towards a Just Transition.”

Further details can be found here.

Please join us for the first ever hybrid meeting to discuss the next phase of the Crisis Lookout Coalition

Tuesday 26th April, 9-5pm BST (workshop)

Wednesday 27th April, 9-5pm BST (plenary)

Cities are experiencing extensive and costly damage due to such increasingly severe disasters as hurricanes, floods, droughts, forest fires, among others. How to address them is well-known but many solutions are extremely costly and time consuming. The Centre’s Sophie Evans will join an expert panel to explore how cities can identify and prioritize needed climate-resilient hard and soft infrastructure and related projects in advance of natural disasters as well as understanding what responsibilities upper-level governments have in assisting cities to undertake projects that moderate the effects of natural disasters.

The Centre's Eleanor Hevey will be moderating this discussion about why pre-agreed disaster risk finance should be on the agenda for women's advocates everywhere. Together with the United Nations Capital Development Fund, African Risk Capacity (ARC), InsuResilience Global Partnership, World Food Programme and more, women's needs and priorities must inform this new finance frontier if these instruments are to fulfil their potential and work for everyone.