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
Housing Prices, Climate Signals and Reinsurance Shocks with Dr. Philip Mulder
Register here for the January 8 Risky Science Podcast LiveThis week on the Risky Science Podcast, I’m joined by Dr. Phillip Mulder of the University of Wisconsin, co-author of a newly released researc...
10 Des 202549min
Weather, Risk & Europe’s Energy Upheaval with TP ICAP’s Tim Boyce
Our guest is Tim Boyce of TP ICAP, who has spent more than 25 years in financial markets, from US-dollar swaps in London to commodities in Singapore, before returning to the UK to build out the firm’...
28 Nov 202545min
Pandemics, Models and the Limits of Securitization with Dr. Susan Erikson
On today’s episode of the Risky Science Podcast, we’re stepping outside the usual finance lens and into a conversation that will push many of your assumptions about how risk, capital, and human health...
19 Nov 202547min
