Oceans in the Driver’s Seat: Climate Risk in the Era of Super El Niño

Tom is Senior Director and Head of Climate Analytics for Asia Pacific at risk advisor, Aon. He has worked for 18 years in climate science, catastrophe risk modelling, insurance, and resilience. During this time, he has supported clients understand the materiality of physical climate risks to their business and build effective resilience strategies. Tom is a Chartered Civil Engineer, and an Adjunct Fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW, with a PhD in Environmental Science. He maintains an active research profile having published over 20 peer-reviewed papers including in Nature Climate Change. He sits on the Insurance Council of Australia’s Climate and Resilience Committee, and the Expert Panel for the Actuaries Institute’s Climate & Sustainability Practice Committee and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Climate Change Research Centre at UNSW.

Stuart is Risk Frontiers’ Chief Climate Scientist. With expertise in climate modelling, data assimilation and machine learning, Stuart’s research focuses on understanding the large-scale dynamics of extreme weather events to better quantify risk across time horizons from individual storms to multi-centennial climate change.