Mark Leplastrier Email & Phone Number

I have 21 years experience in the general insurance industry, building an exceptional team called IAG Natural Perils. Our focus is natural peril risk modelling, primarily for the functions of reinsurance, risk based pricing, and major event support and reserving. However, understanding changes to severe weather, and developing options for community risk reduction, have become a priority over the last decade due to increased risks from climate change. My team is highly skilled, passionate and innovative with PhDs across meteorology, hydrodynamic modelling, engineering, statistics and actuarial sciences. There are also specialists in technology solutions, hydrology and analytics. We have an active research program, particularly in the use of dynamic and statistical downscaling of regional climate models to improve our understanding of past, present and future severe weather characteristics.I am determined to make a positive impact in community risk reduction through how we assess and set building code and land planning requirements to incorporate climate change. Developing options to help communities suffering from past decisions will be equally important and the greatest challenge of all.