2006 European Committee Meeting
Presentations
"What's Driving the Growth in the Weather Market" - Weather and Commodity Related Opportunities
Brian O'Hearne, Managing Director, Environmental and Commodity Markets, Swiss Re
Kalibraxe L'Energie Maitrisee & Weather Derivatives - "Take a New Look at the Weather!"
"Is it more rational to manage interest rate risk than weather risk?"
Pr. Didier Marteau Graduate Business School of Paris, Aon France
and Ralf Holz (PhD), Aon France
"European End User Business"
Marcel Staheli, Environmental * Commodity Markets, Swiss Re
"Weather & European Carbon Market - How do temperatures and rainfalls influence the carbon market?"
Christian de Perthuis, Caisse des Depots
European Legal and Regulatory Update
Claude Brown, Clifford Chance
"Introduction of Wind-Based Weather Derivatives"
Jens Boening, Merrill Lynch Commodities (Europe) Trading Ltd.
Powernext & Meteo France Presentation
"Recent and Future Progress in Meteorological Forecasting"
Emmanuel Legrand, Deputy-head of Forecasting, Meteo-France
"Weather Data issues for the Weather Derivatives Market"
Jeff Hamlin, Risk Management Solutions
Asian Market Update
Hideki Nii, Asia-pacific Committee Co-Chair and Goro Shiina, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd.
Agriculture and Weather Cover
Jean-Christophe Garaix, AXA Re