Matt Foote

Matt has over 25 years of experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry, specialising in catastrophe modelling, as well as an additional 10 years experience in geospatial analytics and cartography.

He has led the design and development of innovative climate risk analytics and data products, including global physical hazard and risk models, economic and societal risk indices, as well as integrated risk quantification methods and platforms for client disclosure and strategic risk management.

Matt previously created and led catastrophe modelling and exposure management teams for Mitsui Sumitomo Syndicate 3210, Argo Group, as well as with Guy Carpenter, and Willis Towers Watson.

His previous roles have included directing a major international insurance risk research programme (the Willis Research Network), as well as senior roles at the catastrophe modelling companies EQECAT and RMS.

Matt also held a staff position at the World Bank in the Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance team. He is a Chartered Geographer and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was an editor of the Wiley textbook ‘Natural Catastrophe Modelling: a Practitioner’s Guide’, and is currently editing another Wiley textbook, ‘Geographical Applications in Disaster Risk Management’.

Matt was a member of the Climate Financial Risk Forum’s Data, Metrics and Disclosures Working Group, and acted as technical reviewer of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure’s risk modelling platform and global report. Matt was also the Chair of the Global Risk Modelling Alliance’s Strategic Advisory Board, and is the UK Principal Representative to the Intergovernmental Panel on Earth Observation (GEO) Programme Board.