Confronting the Normality of Extremes

Extreme events are the normal way natural landscapes and financial markets are shaped and defined...

The Willis Research Network is the world's largest partnership between academia and the insurance industry. Our focus is evaluating the frequency, severity and impact of extreme events and helping society at local and global scales manage these risks and share the costs of major catastrophes via public and private sector approaches.

The Network continues to grow. It includes many of the world's leading researchers and institutions across all fields of natural perils, climate change, the vulnerability of the built environment and related systems, extreme statistics, financial risk, law and liability, management and economics.

By funding new staff at these institutions, the WRN has been able to support focussed research that brings practical benefit combined with a progressive academic research agenda. Nothing on this scale has been undertaken before.

The WRN has an open and collaborative ethos and we welcome engagement with all related communities. Please read our publications, attend our public events and connect with our work.

For further information read on and contact us via one of our international offices or members.