Celebrating 10 years of the Insurance Development Forum and a decade of progress in risk modelling and disaster resilience. Our SVP of Innovation, Ian Branagan, sat down with them to share reflections on the IDF journey and what it takes to close the global risk information gap.
Ian Branagan served as Chair of the Insurance Development Forum Risk Modelling Steering Group and played a central role in shaping how risk data, modelling and analytics are used to support disaster risk financing and resilience in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) through the IDF. As the IDF marks ten years, #ChangeAgent Ian Branagan - now Senior Vice President, Innovation, at RenaissanceRe – reflects on the Forum’s origins, the shift from reactive aid and development to pre-arranged financing for disasters, and why closing the risk information gap has been just as important as mobilising capital to support #FutureReadyNations “For the IDF Risk Modelling Steering Group, a pivotal choice was the commitment to open, globally accessible data and models. Rather than creating proprietary tools, the objective was to lower barriers to entry and democratise access to risk insight.” Read his full reflections here: https://lnkd.in/eTkmdU-S #IDF_At_10_Years #ImagineThePossible #Insurance #Resilience #Africa #Development