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About Willis

Willis Group Holdings plc is a leading global insurance broker. Through its subsidiaries, Willis develops and delivers professional insurance, reinsurance, risk management, financial and human resource consulting and actuarial services to corporations, public entities and institutions around the world.

Founded in 1828 and headquartered in London, Willis Group has more than 400 offices in nearly 120 countries, with a global team of approximately 20,000 employees serving clients in virtually every part of the world. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol WSH.

The Willis Research Network was conceived and supported by Willis Group's reinsurance division, Willis Re which remains a primary user of the network's science.

Willis Re serves the risk management and risk transfer needs of a diverse, global client base that includes all of the world's top insurance and reinsurance carriers and national catastrophe schemes in many countries around the world. The broker's global team of experts offers services and advice that help clients make better reinsurance decisions, access worldwide capital markets

Additional information on Willis & Willis Re may be found at www.willis.com and www.willisre.com

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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Willis Research Network – Natural Hazards Client Seminar
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Scenarios, Financial Networks and Systemically Important Financial Institutions
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Willis ‘Resilience’ Magazine Identifies Growing Risk Challenges from Natural Catastrophe Exposures
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Big Data: Is it all just Big Jargon?
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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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