Risk Management & Resilience Expert; Partner & Global Co-Leader for Risk in Insurance at McKinsey & Company; Author of "At War with the Weather"
Erwann Michel-Kerjan Biography
Dr. Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan is an authority on large-scale risk management, resilience, and value creation. Michel-Kerjan is a leader of McKinsey's North American Insurance Practice and serves as partner and global co-leader for risk in insurance at McKinsey & Company. He has two decades of experience advising clients on transformation, organizational effectiveness, risk culture, behavioral economics, and decision making. Michel-Kerjan studied at Ecole Polytechnique in France, McGill in Canada, and Harvard in the United States.
Michel-Kerjan spent a decade at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as executive director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center and taught value creation in the MBA program. As chairman of the OECD Secretary General's Advisory Board on Financial Management of Catastrophes for 10 years, he advised finance ministries across 35 countries and private sector organizations. Michel-Kerjan has also served as an advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations, and the World Bank.
He is a founding member of the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report and has been a regular speaker at Davos. Michel-Kerjan has testified before the U.S. Congress as a subject matter expert and contributed to Bloomberg. He appeared in the documentary series "How to Survive the End of the World."
Michel-Kerjan is the author of seven books, including "At War with the Weather" and "The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World." He received the Kulp-Wright Award for influential contributions to risk management literature and the Lloyd's Science of Risk Prize. Michel-Kerjan has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications on catastrophe risk management and disaster financing. His work has been featured in outlets including BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, Financial Times, The Economist, New York Times, Time, Wall Street Journal, Nature, and Science.
Erwann Michel-Kerjan Speaking Topics
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Dealing with the Extraordinary: Environmental Catastrophes
Imagine a scenario where a massive flood or earthquake takes out the supplier of one critical widget needed to build your company's highest selling product. All of a sudden you've lost weeks of revenue while finding an alternate source for a part that only represents a fraction of the cost of your product. This kind of situation is one, says Erwann Michel-Kerjan in this forward-thinking talk, that many companies simply don't prepare for. Yet, in an increasingly disaster-ridden world, it's an issue that will separate the companies that prosper from those that stumble. While growing globalization of social and economic activities worldwide has brought many benefits, its flip side is that the risks you face are becoming more global too.
Interdependency is the defining element of the 21st century. Some companies are now competing with one another on an engagement and stewardship level that remains uncharted for many other major players. Michel-Kerjan outlines the ways companies can lead in a modern marketplace that includes re-evaluating global business change and interdependent risks, and innovative plans for catastrophic what-if scenarios.
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Dealing with the Extraordinary: Financial Catastrophes
Large-scale financial risks are reshaping the future of our increasingly interdependent world and this new era calls for a new model. In this talk, world-renowned catastrophic risk speaker Erwann Michel-Kerjan helps organizations find their way through an array of black swan nightmares. What separates Michel-Kerjan from the pack is his knowledge on value creation--how public and private organizations can design blueprints that allow them to flourish and actually increase value in tough times rather than static as innovators pass them
Erwann Michel-Kerjan Videos
Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Wharton Risk Management & Decision Processes Center
Dr. Erwann Michel-Kerjan attended The Geneva Association's 43rd General Assembly in Rome. In this interview, he discusses the protection gap...
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Erwann Michel-Kerjan is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Dealing with the Extraordinary: Environmental Catastrophes, Dealing with the Extraordinary: Financial Catastrophes and The New Risk Architecture: Welcome to Risk Management 2.0. The estimated speaking fee range to book Erwann Michel-Kerjan for your event is available upon request. Erwann Michel-Kerjan generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Afterburner, Lynn Brewer, Pia Heidenmark Cook, Nitin Nohria and Brian Parsley. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Erwann Michel-Kerjan for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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