Weather Risk Management Association

2009 European Committee Meeting
11-13 November

Agenda

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Presentations

Latest Developments in Crop Insurance in France
Mathilde Massias of the French Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fishing,

The European Commission’s viewpoint on risk management in agriculture
Carina Folkeson, DG for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission

Window on Crop Insurance
Jean-Christophe Garaix, Class Manager, Weather and Agriculture Covers, Paris Re

Meteorology and D-Day, 6 June 1944
Stan Cornford, Author

Regulatory Update
Claude Brown, Co-Head, Environmental & Climatic Trading

End-user – Market Context
Sidney Rostan, Insurance Structured Solution team, Natixis

Advancements in Supercomputing for Weather Prediction
Dr. Matt Huddleston, Principal Consultant Climate Change, UK Met Office

Retail products: Specific issues in index development
Tristan d’Orgeval, Weather Risk Manager, Finance & Insurance, Metnext

Retail Products – Getting a Weather Index on the Retail Market
Julien Renaud, Directeur Associé,, AON Global Risk Consulting

Weather data, data cleaning and Weather station Implementations in Third World Countries Panel
Christophe Periard, Deputy Director, Météo France
Seth Keggins, Senior Meteorolgist, MDA EarthSat Weather
David Whitehead, Director of US Operations, Speedwell Weather Derivatives