WTW Research Network Annual Review 2023: Science for Resilience

WTW Research Network Annual Review Topics 2023

Emerging Risks

• How prepared is your organisation against civil unrest and ‘crisis on top of crisis’?
• Lessons from future-prepared firms
• Rethinking supply chains
• Building resilience with WTW’s Airport Risk Index

Weather and Climate Risks

• Understanding global wind and rain risks due to tropical cyclones
• Confronting hailstorm risk: The latest efforts on hailstorm detection and modelling
• Understanding variability in European windstorm risk
• Modelling the risk of climate change litigation for (re)insurers
• La Niña and US tornado outbreaks
• On co-occurring and cascading hazards
• Global event sets of dangerous heat
• Can we reduce infant hunger? The Guatemalan case
• The sky’s the limit: sustainable aviation

Flood and Water Management

• Climate gentrification
• Transport resilience and recovery strategies
• Tailings Storage Facilities
• Benefits and costs of Nature Based Solutions

Earth Risks

• Tsunami risk assessment: the quest for more reliable models
• Creating a globally consistent stochastic event set for earthquake modelling
• Estimating population displacement following disasters
• Impact of a giant megathrust earthquake in Chile today
• Exploring the links between climate change and volcanic hazards
• Parametric insurance solutions for volcanic ash disruption

People Risks

• “Whole of society” approaches to improve preparedness for crises
• Geopolitical risk – Grayzone aggression
• Do rising consumer boycotts threaten corporate geopolitical neutrality?

Technology Risks

• Personal Identity Insurance: Coverage and Pricing in the US
• Artificial Intelligence in the role of assessing cyber risk

Organizational Resilience

• Do insurers adjust prices to incentivise the adoption of loss prevention?
• Training the next generation of risk engineering experts
• The ripple effect of disruption in supply chain
• Transitions from catastrophe