Sylvain Coutu Email & Phone Number

Zürich, Zh, Ch

College Park, Maryland, Us

As Chair of Public-Private Partnerships, I connect and engage with Corporates and Start-ups to develop projects in the domain of applied satellite imagery to agriculture. Objective is to facilitate technological and knowledge transfer from academia to the industrie and foster the use of remote sensing technologies in agro-business.

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

Zurich, Zurich, Ch

* Special Lines underwriting consists in Agriculture, Aviation, Credits & Surety, Engineering and Marine* Manage a team of underwriters in several lines of business with objective to foster innovation within Swiss Re* Co-develop project with external partners such as start-ups, universities, public and private entities* Responsible for underwriting the Italian agriculture market

Zurich, Zurich, Ch

* Client and portfolio management* Indemnity and index insurance product design* Research project supervision (big data, remote sensing, field campaign)* External relationship development (acadmia, start-ups, ...)

Zurich, Zurich, Ch

Combine agiculture and financial models to hedge commodity related risks:* Agro / Forestry / Aquaculture indemnity based insurance pricing* Assessment of financial risks related to price volatility* Use of satellite imagery for real-time commodity monitoring* Development of indexes that reflect environmental risks* International clients and brokers portfolio management

Stanford, Ca, Us

Anthropogenic and natural hazard modeling:* Development of risk assessment functions * Hydrological modeling * Drud and illegal products consumption estimate through environmental modeling

Lausanne, Vaud, Ch

Water contaminants transport dynamics and risks:* Modeling of meteorological, hydrological and contamination processes* Impact of climate change on the water resource * Hazard and risk assessment water, wind and pollution damages * Economical and social costs and benefits of natural resource preservartion * Collaboration with local authorities to meet environmental regulations

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

* Optimization of image analysis algorythm for remote sensing of Biosphere with Radar Image* Project coordination between French, German and Swedish Engineering Institutes* Participation to the final report submitted to the ESA’s Earth Explorer competition

Wind farms and dams management* Optimal positioning of wind turbines using Geographical Information Systems* Participation in the flow algorythm of a sofware for automatisation of hydropower dams

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Civil And Environmental Engineering

Engineer, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Engineer - Erasmus, Hydrology

Engineer, Water Resource Engineering