How Hurricane Risk Really Gets Priced with Dr. Ben Collier
Dr. Ben Collier, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his fellow researchers published a recent paper that uses twenty years of Florida data to trace a direct line from cat model re...
4 Mar 55min
Black Box Problems, Machine Judgment and the Rules Nobody's Written Yet With Daniel Schwarcz
A conversation with Daniel Schwarcz, professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he teaches insurance law, contract law, tort law, and financial regulation and his academic work sits at...
18 Feb 53min
AI Risk, Markets and Modeling the Unknown With Daniel Reti
In this episode of the Risky Science Podcast we are joined by Danie Retil, co-founder of Exona Labs, a startup building AI risk modeling and quantification tools.
11 Feb 42min
Prediction Markets, Parametrics and Rethinking Weather Risk With Dr. Partick Brown
For decades, insurers, reinsurers and energy companies have relied on models, parametrics, and traditional hedges to manage hurricane and weather exposure. But what if markets could continuously price...
4 Feb 53min
Greenland, Venezuela and the New Political Risk Model Reality with WTW’s Sam Wilkin
In this episode of the podcast, we speak with geopolitical risk expert Samuel Wilkin of Willis Towers Watson about why political risk is moving from a background concern to a front-line business probl...
21 Jan 46min
Cyber Risk in 2026 and Why Near Misses Matter More Than Losses With Morgan Hervé-Mignucci
In our first episode of the New Year we are focusing on cyber risk in 2026, a peril that looks increasingly systemic, yet remains poorly understood when it comes to how losses actually materialize.Ove...
14 Jan 41min
Climate, Markets and the Limits of Insurability with Dave Jones
In the last episode of Risky Science, we examined skepticism around climate-conditioned catastrophe models with Roger Pielke Jr.—questioning how much weight long-range climate assumptions should carry...
24 Des 202551min
Climate, Catastrophe Models and the Limits of Prediction with Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.
Register for the January 8 Risky Science Podcast LiveIn this episode, I’m joined by Roger Pielke Jr., a researcher known for his work on the use—and misuse—of models in risk and policy decisions. Piel...
17 Des 202542min
