Adrian Champion
Head of Climate Analytics UK & EMEA
Aon
Adrian has a PhD in Meteorology from the University of Reading, where his research focused on European windstorms, flooding and climate change. He continued as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Reading for another 4 years, working with the (re)insurance industry on natural hazards research. He moved to the University of Exeter to take up a Research Fellow position, continuing his work on natural hazards and climate change and with the (re)insurance industry. He then joined the UK Met Office where he led a scientific consultancy team.
He joined Aon in June 2021, within the View of Risk Advisory team as a Catastrophe Research Analyst, then leading the climate analytics within reinsurance solutions. Since January 2024 he has led Climate Analytics for UK & EMEA within Aon’s Risk Capital, helping clients navigate the topic of climate change through quantification of the projected impacts of climate change on their business and helping them transition and de-risk their portfolios. He co-chairs the Aon Research Forum, Aon’s academic engagement network, collaborating with academia on improving Aon’s View of Risk.
SESSIONS
Day 1
11:30
Presentation: How the Insurance Industry Can Support the Energy Transition
Hail impacts on solar farms, hurricane wind resulting in failures of power distribution networks, floods affecting battery energy storage systems (BESS) - our energy systems are being more impacted by extreme weather events, resulting in unique challenges in quantifying risk for exposure managers and underwriters. The insurance industry, however, plays a key role in the complex process of transitioning our energy systems to become lower-carbon overtime, which requires support for scaling of new low-carbon technologies. This presentation will focus on the challenges underwriters and catastrophe managers are faced with in supporting the energy transition and how new data, analytics, and risk transfer tools can help to support the acceleration of decarbonization efforts and manage disaster risk and liability.
Adrian Champion, Head of Climate Analytics UK & EMEA, Aon