Profiles for. UNISDR Private Sector Alliance for Risk Sensitive Investment. Interim Board

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In 1999, he became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AXA Cessions (reinsurance captive tool for the Group) and Head of Group Property & Casualty Technical Department.

2 Philippe Derieux Deputy CEO AXA Global P&C is the Deputy CEO of AXA Global P&C. He has held several positions in the financial sector before joining AXA in 1997 as Shareholder Representative for Reinsurance and Large Risks subsidiaries. In 1999, he became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AXA Cessions (reinsurance captive tool for the Group) and Head of Group Property & Casualty Technical Department. In 2007 he moved to Switzerland as a Member of AXA Winterthur s Management Board in Switzerland and assumed the position of Head of Property & Casualty. He was appointed Deputy CEO of AXA Global P&C, Group Reinsurance Officer and Member of the Group P&C Board in Since 2008, he is also Vice Chairman of the General Insurance Committee at Insurance Europe. Philippe is a graduate from the Institut d Etudes Politiques de Paris and has a PhD in Law. His mother tongue is French. He is fluent in English and German. Rowan Douglas CEO Global Analytics/Chairman Willis Group Rowan Douglas is CEO Capital, Science & Policy Practice at Willis Group. Willis is a global risk advisor, insurance and reinsurance broker with approximately 18,000 employees operating in more than 130 countries. Previously, Rowan served on the board of Willis Re as CEO, Global Analytics. He also sits on the Executive Committee of the International Insurance Society, New York. Following appointments to a range of UN and World Bank related processes on resilience and insurance he was elected as founding co-chair of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF) in April The IDF brings together national and regional Governments, the global re/insurance sector, UN Agencies and other international institutions to enable the development of insurance related capabilities and capacity to support disaster resilience and the wider objectives of the Post-2015 Agenda. 2

Rowan serves on the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science & Technology, the Natural Environment Research Council and of the Royal Society's Working Group on Resilience to Extreme Weather.

3 Rowan serves on the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science & Technology, the Natural Environment Research Council and of the Royal Society's Working Group on Resilience to Extreme Weather. In 2006 he founded and Chairs the Willis Research Network which brings together around fifty universities and science institutions across the world to confront challenges of resilience, finance and sustainable growth Following degrees in Geography at Durham (BA Hons) and Bristol (M.Phil) Universities, Rowan began his career underwriting reinsurance at Lloyd s Syndicate 1095 before founding the international risk information company WIRE Limited in 1994 which was purchased by Willis in In 2014, he received the Kenneth R Black Distinguished Service Award from the International Insurance Society. Peter Höppe Head Geo Risks Research Munich Re Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Höppe Head Geo Risks Research/Corporate Climate Centre, Munich Re Prof. Höppe joined Munich Re in Currently he is heading the Munich Re division Geo Risks Research/Corporate Climate Centre. Before joining Munich Re Prof. Höppe has worked in different institutes at the Ludwig-Maximilians- University in Munich and as a post doc at Yale University (USA). Most time of his university career Prof. Höppe spent at the Insitute of Bioclimatology and Applied Meteorology and the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. His academic education is in meteorology (Masters and PhD) and human biology (PhD). His main areas of research have been effects of atmospheric processes (heat/cold, UV radiation, air pressure fluctuations) and air pollutants (ozone, particles) on humans and the general assessment of environmental risks. Currently his research focus is on trends of natural catastrophes and their drivers as well as on climate change effects on insurance industry in general. Prof. Höppe is member of many scientific societies and advisory boards, from 1999 to 2002 he has been the President of the International Society of Biometeorology. He has held expert functions in different UN-Organisations. He is the Chairman of the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative, which he has founded in In 2007 Prof. Höppe has been appointed as Climate Change Advisor of the Bavarian State Government and Chair of the Finance-Forum: Climate Change of the high-tech 3

4 Strategy of the German Federal Government. In 2009 he has been one of the initiators of the Desertec Industrial Initiative. In 2014 he became Chairman of the Münchener Universitätsgesellschaft. Aris Papadopoulos Chairman STET; Founder, Resilience Action Fund Aris Papadopoulos is the retired CEO of Titan America and is presently Board Chairman of ST Equipment & Technology and an advisor to Titan Group. He has over 35 years of industrial experience, twenty of which he served as Chief Executive. He founded the non-profit Resilience Action Fund, aiming to advance transparency, awareness and education for greater disaster resilience in the built environment. He authored of the recent ebook: Resilience The Ultimate Sustainability: Lessons from Failing to Develop a Stronger and Safer Built Environment. He was the first chair ( ) of the UN International Strategy on Disaster Reduction (UN- ISDR) Private Sector Advisory Group. He was founding chair of the Concrete Joint Sustainability Initiative and chaired the Portland Cement Association. In 2013 he received the American Concrete Institute s Sustainability Award. He earned Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Chemical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard University. In 2015 he was appointed Distinguished Expert in Resilience at Florida International University s (FIU) Extreme Events Institute, where he advises on urban resilience research and educational programs. Oz Ozturk Partner PwC Oz is an Advisory Partner in PwC UK firm. Oz holds a Master s degree from Stanford s Graduate School of Business and is a chartered accountant. He has over 20 years experience in Management Consulting having worked for Coopers, PwC, and IBM managing Supply Chain & Technology practices within each organization, supporting clients across diverse geographies and industries. He has also held leadership positions within industry as CEO for a supply chain outsourcing organization, CIO for a logistics organization and as VP of Solutions for an international Supply Chain software vendor. 4

5 Dale Sands (Vice-Chair AR!SE) Senior Vice President & Technology & Practice Director, Environment AECOM Mr. Dale Sands is Senior Vice President with AECOM Technology and Global Practices Director for the Environment business line. Mr. Sands has led cross business unit working groups that have client facing implications in serving both public and private organizations. Mr. Sands has worked for AECOM, and predecessor companies for 14 years, and has both lived and worked internationally with experience in more than 40 countries. Mr. Sands is leading the Global Practices for Environment which includes Air Quality, Environmental Health and Safety, Impact Assessment & Permitting, Remediation Engineering and Construction, Specialty & Emerging Technologies, Water & Natural Resources and Waste Services. Mr. Sands is an invited speaker to many national environmental conferences and has over 35 years of consulting experience in environmental matters, with more than 35 publications or presentations. Mr. Sands resides in Chicago. Mr. Sands earned a B.S. in Chemistry and Biology from Central Michigan University (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan), a M.S. in Environmental Health Sciences from The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and a Masters in Business Administration from California State University (Hayward, California). Prior to joining AECOM Mr. Sands has held senior leadership positions with global organizations such as ABB Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland), CH2M Hill (Denver, Colorado), Environmental Resources Management (London, England) and McKesson Corporation (San Francisco, California). Margareta Wahlström (Co-Chair AR!SE) Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction. UNISDR In November 2008, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of Margareta Wahlström as his first Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction. Ms Wahlström has extensive experience in both disaster relief operations and disaster risk management, with the United Nations system and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. 5

6 Her broad experience spans conflict and non-conflict emergencies, and addressing long-term issues of sustainable development. Ms Wahlström is also the head of UNISDR, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, that is the focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disaster reduction and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activities of the United Nations system and regional organizations and activities in socio economic and humanitarian fields. Under the SRSG s leadership, UNISDR supports the implementation of the "Hyogo Framework for Action : Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters" and now the "Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction " throughout the world. Margareta Wahlström's previous appointments include: Coordinator of the Independent Panel on Safety and Security of UN Personnel and Premises, chaired by Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, 2008 Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator and Assistant-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, , and United Nations Special Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance to the Tsunami-Affected Communities, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Relief, Recovery and Rehabilitation, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Under-Secretary-General for Disaster Response and Operations and Deputy Director Operations, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Sandra Wu, Wen-Hsiu (Co-Chair AR!SE) Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd. Since June 2009, Wu has served as President of Kokusai Kogyo Holdings Co., Ltd., the holding company of Japan Asia Group, an entity consisting of 54 consolidated group companies with clients in 30 countries and 380 local governments. The core of the group is Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd., a spatial information consulting firm. As of May 2013, Wu has become the Chairperson and CEO of Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd. She is also the President of Japan Asia Holdings Limited. 6

7 Wu worked at a trading company in Taiwan before joining Nomura Securities Hong Kong in After realizing several key mergers and acquisitions as project manager in an investment company in Hong Kong, she co-founded and became Vice President of Japan Asia Holdings Limited in In 2001, she established Japan Asia Holdings (Japan) Limited and became its Representative Director. Japan Asia Holdings (Japan) Limited evolved into Japan Asia Securities Co., Ltd. where Wu served as President from 1999 becoming the first woman to head a Tokyo Stock Exchange member firm and into Japan Asia Holdings Limited. She has been serving as a member of the board of directors of the Nippon Keidanren since Wu has a BA from Department of Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University, diplomas in Accounting for Managers by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Personnel Management by the Hong Kong Management Association, and has completed the Advance Management Program at the Harvard Business School. 7

Our Leadership Team. Ed Peter, Chairman

Our Leadership Team. Ed Peter, Chairman Our Leadership Team Chaired by Ed Peter, former Head of Deutsche Asset Management Asia Pacific, Middle East & North Africa, Duxton Water s Board comprises of a team of four highly experienced members with