Ivelin Zvezdov — With natural catastrophe models towards urban resilience
School of Earth and Sustainability 
The UN Global Sustainable Solutions Winter School is a collaboration between the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s School of Public Policy and its School of Earth & Sustainability, University of Massachusetts Boston’s School for the Environment, McMaster University, PEDRR, and some institutes of the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS, UNU-EHS, & UNU-MERIT). This is the Winter School’s fifth non-consecutive year in operation.
In this lecture, Mr. Zvezdov will provide an introduction to cat models and how that can be used by private and public sector actores to enhance resilience planning.
Lecturer Bio:
Ivelin Zvezdov is a financial and insurance economist by academic training with some further depth of knowledge in international relations and political philosophy. He has master’s degrees in economics and international relations from the Universities of St. Andrews and Oxford. He works on natural and man-made catastrophe modeling and product development for the (re)insurance industry. His professional career of 25 years has developed in the financial and insurance industries with leadership roles in mathematical modeling and management for corporate, extreme, and catastrophic risks.
Ivelin is an assistant vice president at Verisk and works on product development. He does research and writes on catastrophic risk, shocks and disaster, social fragility, and contagion from both the mathematical risk and moral philosophy aspects. Of particular interest to his present research are topics such as modern diplomacy in the climate, environmental and food security fields. Mr. Zvezdov has published research papers on financial and insurance quantitative methods for risk management, and on environmental and biodiversity risk estimation.
You can connect with Mr. Zvezdov on LinkedIn.
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