Gero Michel

Gero has a long career working in data and analytics related roles in reinsurance, with a focus on capital efficiencies and product development. He has over 25 years of risk management experience, with expertise gained working as a seismologist/geologist in academia and in disaster research with a PHD in Geoscience. As Head of Risk Analytics at AIG Re he optimises capital strategies and also assists in the creation of new insurance-linked securities (ILS) product opportunities. Prior to this hiring by AIG, he was the lead for broker Aon’s UK & EMEA Analytics within its Reinsurance Solutions division. Gero had worked at Chaucer before that, with a senior role in its European operations as Managing Director and a Treaty Underwriter, with responsibility for analytics, underwriting and parametric solutions for both emerging and developed markets. He has also held senior positions at Montpelier Re, Willis, RMS, Endurance and Hannover Re.

Education

• Harvard Business School - GMP, leadership, management, finance 2007 - 2007
• University of Tübingen - PHD, MSc,, geology, geophysics, hazard, risk 1982 - 1992