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Disaster Resilience Center of Excellence

A Strategic Approach

The Marsh McLennan Disaster Resilience Center of Excellence delivers insights, expertise and capabilities to help public sector leaders prepare for, mitigate against, insure, and recover from disasters.

We offer a range of solutions that address risks across the continuum of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.

Preparedness

  • Catastrophe mapping and modeling
  • Risk and vulnerability assessments
  • Pre-disaster economic & physical analysis

Hazard Mitigation / Climate Adaptation

  • ESG consulting
  • Incentivizing resilience and mitigation
  • Infrastructure assessment

Insurance

  • Insurance brokerage services
  • Reinsurance brokerage services
  • Alternative risk transfer solutions (including Insurance Linked Securities, Parametric solutions, and Community-Based Catastrophe Insurance)
  • Credit risk services
  • Policy management

Recovery

  • FEMA grant assistance
  • Claims recovery programs 
Resilience
The Role of Insurance for Disaster Resilience

Featuring Daniel Kaniewski

The Role of Insurance for Disaster Resilience

Featuring Daniel Kaniewski

In the news

Marsh McLennan’s Daniel Kaniewski highlights innovative resilience incentives

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Marsh McLennan’s Daniel Kaniewski discusses FEMA recovery programs

Marsh McLennan’s Daniel Kaniewski discusses FEMA recovery programs for the Kentucky tornadoes and the role of insurance.

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A resilience framework for the future

Mitigate the consequences of risks and disruptions that materialize by making disaster resilience a priority in security programs.

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Opinion: Americans don’t have enough in the bank to weather unrelenting disasters

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Public-private partnerships and (re)insurance pools in Europe

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Flooding
Senate Hearing On The National Flood Insurance Program

Featuring Daniel Kaniewski, Marsh McLennan

Senate Hearing On The National Flood Insurance Program

Featuring Daniel Kaniewski, Marsh McLennan

In the news

Swiss Re, Guy Carpenter & ICEYE deliver NYC parametric flood insurance

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Guy Carpenter’s Julian Enoizi suggests five ways to narrow flood protection gap in Capitol Hill testimony

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Major changes in federal flood insurance program urged by U.S. Senate panel

Marsh McLennan’s Daniel Kaniewski testifies on National Flood Insurance Program.

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Back-to-Back Hurricanes Set to Strain FEMA as Its Funds Run Low

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Ex-FEMA Official Says Flood Insurance Program in ‘Desperate’ Need of Overhaul

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As Floods Become Bigger and More Common, Risks from Insurance Gaps Also Grow

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Wildfires
Mitigating Wildfires

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Mitigating Wildfires

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Guy Carpenter launches ground-breaking European wildfire risk score

Guy Carpenter launches a Wildfire Risk Score designed to help clients manage their exposure to the evolving risk of wildfire across Europe.

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Experts
Learn more about our leaders 
Jonathan Clark
Head of Public Sector, North America, Guy Carpenter
Jake is the leader for Guy Carpenter's North America public sector operations. He was formerly an an underwriter with Chubb. In 1992 he joined Guy Carpenter and over the ensuing years has represented regional, national and global insurers across the reinsurance marketplace. In this capacity, he works closely with colleagues and clients across Marsh McLennan.
Ruth Lux
Head of Public Sector, EMEA, Guy Carpenter
Ruth leads the Europe, Middle East and Africa Public Sector practice at Guy Carpenter. Her work supports governments and public sector entities in developing risk transfer solutions to mitigate against the impacts of emerging global and national risks and in building resilience. Previous to joining Guy Carpenter she headed up political and terrorism risk analytics at JLT Specialty.
Chris Sykes
Public Sector, Guy Carpenter
Managing Director Chris Sykes has more than 25 years of experience in reinsurance underwriting, catastrophe reinsurance syndication, and client services. He joined Guy Carpenter in 2008, where he focuses on catastrophe risk management. He spent 10 years with Swiss Re and five years as a Chief Underwriter for North America at Reinsurance Australia Corporation.
Kevin Bryant
U.S. Public Sector Practice Leader, Marsh
Kevin Bryant is Managing Director, US Public Entity Practice Leader at Marsh. He is responsible for the operational, colleague, client and market excellence for the Marsh US Public Entity Practice.
Raymond Hutnik
Practice Leader, FACS Marsh Advisory
Ray is the global practice leader of Marsh Advisory's Financial Risk Consulting Solutions. He provides expertise in the quantification and measurement of property claims and business interruption losses, construction delays, review of economic claims from third parties, and employee theft and fraud losses that can help clients achieve recovery and/or minimize losses resulting from catastrophes.
Reid Sawyer
U.S. Cyber Risk Consulting Leader, Marsh
Reid leads the strategy and delivery of Marsh’s cybersecurity consulting services. Prior to Marsh, he led JLT’s Emerging Risks Group. Reid spent more than 20 years with the US Army, where he acted as a senior advisor on emerging risk trends, served in Special Operations forces, and founded the US Army’s premier strategy group on counterterrorism. He was also a senior faculty member at West Point.
Daniel Kaniewski
Public Sector, Marsh McLennan
Dan is Managing Director, Public Sector, Marsh McLennan. In this role he leads enterprise-wide initiatives that deliver solutions for public sector challenges. Prior, Dan was Deputy Administrator for Resilience at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Before FEMA he led the Global Resilience practice at AIR Worldwide, a catastrophe risk modeling firm.
Julian Enoizi
CEO of Europe, Guy Carpenter
Julian is the Global Head of the Public Sector Practice at Guy Carpenter, the world-leading reinsurance broker part of Marsh McLennan. He was previously CEO of Pool Re, the UK Government-backed terrorism reinsurance mutual, for almost a decade. Julian has extensive experience of working on international and governmental advisory boards.
Bev Adams
Climate Practice Leader, Marsh Advisory
As Consulting Director and Practice Leader at Marsh Advisory, Dr. Bev is responsible for ESG and Sustainability consulting, Climate & Catastrophe Risk and Resilience solutions, and Remote Sensing Services for MMC clients globally across all business sectors, captives/insurers and governments. Before joining Marsh in Bev worked for the World Bank.
Guillermo Franco
Managing Director, Guy Carpenter
Guillermo leads Guy Carpenter’s parametric advisory offerings and supports GC Securities in the design and analysis of parametric cat bonds. He also coordinates research initiatives in the fields of catastrophe risk, parametric risk transfer and nature.
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