Chairman of the Board of The Geneva Association and CEO of XL Group, Mike McGavick, reaffirmed the (re)insurance industry's commitment to supporting global climate resilience and disaster risk reduction measures at a High-Level Luncheon hosted by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, ar the UN Paris Agreement signing ceremony in New York.
Leading international insurance economics think tank The Geneva Association today announced that the 2014 Ernst-Meyer prize has been awarded to Maria Polyakova for her Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) doctoral thesis on "Regulation of public health insurance".
Tse-Ling Teh (Columbia University) and Maddalena Ferrana (Toulouse School of Economics) are announced as winners of this year's Ernst Meyer Prize.
Leading international insurance economics think tank has today announced the winners of its prestigious Ernst Meyer Research Prize for 2015. The winners are Tse-Ling Teh for her Columbia University PhD on Governing Uncertainties: Financial Policies for Risk and Maddalena Ferrana for her Toulouse School of Economics PhD, Three Essays on the Decision Making under Risk and Equity Concerns.
Today, 66 Chief Executives of the world's leading insurers have confirmed their commitment to The Geneva Association's Climate Risk Statement - a set of guiding principles on the substantial role insurance can play in global efforts to tackle climate-related risks.
Read the full statement: The Climate Risk Statement of The Geneva Association
