Christopher Au

Senior Director, Climate Practice and Alternative Risk Transfer Solutions, WTW

Christopher heads up the Asia Pacific Climate Risk Centre of Willis, a WTW
business, which focuses on climate risk quantification and management.
Based in Singapore, the Centre works with support corporates, financial
institutions, insurers, and governments to understand, quantify and build
resilience against climate risks. It focuses on physical and transition climate risk
assessment and quantification, and innovative forms of risk management and
financing.
Christopher is also responsible for strategy and solution development for Willis’
Climate Practice globally.
This follows his role in building and commercialising the firm’s disaster risk
financing practice, which provides advisory and risk transfer product design
services to public sector clients.
Christopher has also spent time in East Africa, launching an agricultural
parametric insurance programme supported by the World Bank and the World
Food Programme.
Christopher joined the company in 2018. He holds a PhD in Insurance
Regulation and Policy, and an MSc in Environmental Policy from Imperial
College London, and a BA in Geography from University College London. He
also holds a Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management

Christopher Au

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Christopher Au