John Hillier

John is fascinated by dependencies between hazards triggered by severe weather events (e.g. windstorms, flooding, cold, landslides), and their impact on infrastructure (e.g. houses, rail, road). He is Reader in Natural Hazard Risk at Loughborough University.  Since working for Zurich Insurance (2008-2010) as a catastrophe modeller, John has worked with the insurance sector, illustratively publishing a ‘Practitioner’s Guide’ to catastrophe modelling with industry colleagues (e.g., Verisk, Willis, Impact Forecasting). Currently John is a UKRI Knowledge Exchange Fellow 3 days a week, and within this a placement in the Bank of England (PRA) has been used to modify the Bank’s General Insurance Stress Tests.