Welcome to the Willis Research Network (WRN), the world's largest collaboration between public science and the finance sector.

Based in London, led and sponsored by Willis, a global insurance broker, the Willis Research Network was formed in 2006 to integrate science, insurance and resilience at a scale never before envisaged. It has become the world’s largest collaboration between public science and the financial sector with a membership of around fifty leading research institutions. Read more about the Willis Research Network.

Latest News

Could an Earthquake Cause the Next Financial Crisis?
May 20, 2013 | read more ›

Willis Research Network – Natural Hazards Client Seminar
May 15, 2013 | read more ›

Scenarios, Financial Networks and Systemically Important Financial Institutions
May 01, 2013 | read more ›

Latest Events

Willis Research Network – Natural Hazards Client Seminar
Jun 18, 2013 | read more ›

Geospatial World Forum Session
May 13, 2013 | read more ›

Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit
Apr 30, 2013 | read more ›

Latest Publications

Risk Management Institute’s Quarterly Credit Report
May 09, 2013 | read more ›

A MapReduce Framework for Analysing Portfolios of Catastrophic Risk with Secondary Uncertainty
Apr 22, 2013 | read more ›

A first analysis of the potential landslide distribution from the Iran earthquake
Apr 18, 2013 | read more ›

About WRN

As economic, social and environmental uncertainties increase, institutions and populations seek greater resilience to support sustainable growth. Science and insurance lay at the heart of understanding, managing and sharing these risks, building more secure futures at local and global scales.

The Willis Research Network (WRN) operates across the full spectrum of risk from natural catastrophe, to legal liability, financial and security issues linked across driving themes: Resilience, Security & Sustainable Growth; Managing Extremes; Insurance & Risk Management and Mastering the Modelled World.

All Members and activities are united by a common aim: improving resilience by integrating first class science into operational and financial decision-making across public and private institutions.

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Fast Facts

  • The WRN was formed in September 2006 to support leading academic research into extreme events, with a specific focus on responding to the challenges faced by businesses, insurers and governments
  • The WRN's membership spans the globe, counting more than 50 world-class universities, scientific research organisations and public policy institutions
  • Collectively, our members have published more than 100 papers in leading scientific journals
  • Nearly all of the WRN's research is freely available to the public and can be downloaded on our website

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