March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
16h 10m
English
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Acknowledgements
I would like to sincerely thank the reviewers for their very helpful comments, including Prof Robert Finger (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland), Prof Barry Barnet (University of Kentucky, USA), Prof Yui Leong (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Dr Auguste Boissonnade (Risk Management Solutions, USA), Michael Owen (Guy Carpenter, Singapore), Claudio Busarello (Swiss Re, Switzerland), Randall Reese (Allianz ART, USA), Charles Stutley (World Bank, UK), Phil Cottle (Forest Re, UK), Dan Fairweather (Willis, UK) and Dr Hervé Castella (Partner Re, Switzerland).
I am equally grateful for the contributions and reviews of different case studies from colleagues and friends in the industry and academia, including Chen Peng (PICC, China), Zhao Wei (AXA Corporate Solutions, China), Prof Long (Ministry of Agriculture, China), Dr Chutatong Charumilind (Thai General Insurance Association), MK Poddar (Agriculture Insurance Company of India), Harini Kannan and Yu Deng (Swiss Re, Singapore), Sonia Rawal (Allianz Re, Singapore), Ulziibold Yadamsuren (National University of Mongolia), SVRK Prabhakar (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan), Mani Upadhyay (AFSC, Canada), Joseph Bradonisio (Guy Carpenter, Canada), Dr Oscar Vergara (AIR Worldwide, USA), StefanoNicolini (Beach Group, USA), Gift Livata (Microensure, Malawi), Daisy Sabao (World Bank, Mozambique), Shadreck Mapfumo (IFC, South Africa), Roman Shynkarenko (Allianz, Australia), Chis ...
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