Airmic Talks ESG
Airmic’s monthly podcast series has returned with a focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) topic throughout the year. The series will be featuring prominent thought leaders on the topic of ESG within the risk and insurance community.
You can listen to the episodes below, or you can find the podcast series on any podcast platform, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify, by searching for Airmic Talks.
- Airmic Talks ESG: COP27 with Swenja Surminski (14 February 2023)
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Richard is joined by Swenja Surminski, Managing Director for Climate and Sustainability at Marsh McLennan, as she reports back on the progress, agreements and implications of COP27, held in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, in November 2022. - Airmic Talks ESG: Risk engineering sustainability and resilience (31 October 2022)
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Welcome to episode five of Airmic Talks ESG, where Richard is joined by Chris Hickin, Vice President and Operations Engineering Manager at FM Global, who discusses how risk engineering efforts to mitigate climate events can also compliment broader resilience and sustainability initiatives, as well as contributing to reporting requirements. - Airmic Talks ESG: Operationalising ESG initiatives with Control Risks' Emma Arnold (21 August 2022)
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Our guest in this episode is Emma Arnold, a Director based in London, leading Control Risks’ environmental practice for EMEA, which forms part of its wider global ESG consulting team. Emma has a strong focus on risk and governance concerning operationalising an ESG vision that has been set out by the board or senior leadership of corporations. - Airmic Talks ESG: Simon Edwards, Technical Parametric Underwriter at Generali (25 July 2022)
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In our third episode, you are going to hear from Simon Edwards, Technical Parametric Underwriter at Generali Global Corporate & Commercial, with him focusing on how ESG principles can begin to be integrated into a corporate strategy, the role for the commercial market and where he is seeing parametric policies, specifically, have an impact. - Airmic Talks ESG: Ciarán Healy, Aon Captive & Insurance Management (1 June 2022)
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In episode two of the series, Richard is joined by Ciarán Healy, Director of Client Solutions – EMEA at Aon Captive & Insurance Managers, to discuss how captive insurance companies can play a role in supporting their parent group's own ESG betterment activities. - Airmic Talks ESG: Sean McGovern, CEO for UK & Lloyd's at AXA XL (26 April 2022)
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In our first episode, Richard is joined by Sean McGovern, CEO for the UK and Lloyd’s at AXA XL. Sean has shown himself to be particularly passionate about the ESG topic and the role insurers will have to play in supporting the transition of clients. Sean goes on to discuss how AXA XL are integrating ESG thinking into its own operational and underwriting strategies.