Rowan Douglas's Profile

Willis Research Network

Chairman

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Climate modelling

Rowan Douglas, Chairman, Willis Research Network A board member of Willis Re, Rowan leads the company's analytics team and resources to support risk modelling, risk management and reinsurance transactions. He is also Chairman of the Willis Research Network (WRN), the world's largest collaboration between public science and the re/insurance industry. In 2008 Rowan was appointed by the UK Science Minister to Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) the public body which oversees public environmental science expenditure. He also sits on the Governing Board of the Global Earthquake Model Foundation, Pavia, Italy, and the Advisory Committee of the US National Centre of Atmospheric Research Earth System Laboratory, Boulder, USA. Rowan began his career underwriting reinsurance at Syndicate 1095 at Lloyd's before founding the international risk information company WIRE Ltd in 1994 which he sold to Willis in 2000. Rowan was educated in geography with degrees from Durham and Bristol universities.