"Cyber risk: Huge growth and interesting problems"

The School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton is pleased to be hosting the annual Worshipful Company of Actuaries lecture on Wednesday 22 February, from 6 pm at the Centenary Building (100), Room 3023. This year, our guest speaker is Mr. Visesh Gosrani, director of Catastrophe Modelling at Cowbell Cyber and chair the Cyber Risk Working Party of the IFoA who will be discussing "Cyber risk: Huge growth and interesting problems". We are also pleased to welcome our representative from the Worshipful Company of Actuaries, Mr. Jay Stewart.

Students on our undergraduate and master’s programmes in Actuarial Science, as well as those on our other Mathematical Sciences programmes who are interested in pursuing actuarial careers are encouraged to participate. Students will have the opportunity to network with the attending actuaries, to learn more about cyber risks and their impact on the insurance industry. Worshipful Company of Actuaries Prizes will be given to our top students.

During this talk, Mr Visesh Gosrani will cover the recent history of the Cyber market and its projected future growth. Visesh will describe how Cyber as a peril is different to others and how the market has dealt with this difference to date and what the market is doing going forward. The background to commentary about Cyber potentially being uninsurable and how the market is developing products and techniques to mitigate this will also be discussed.

Speaker Bio - Mr. Visesh Gosrani

Visesh has over 20 years of experience as an Actuary and Chief Risk Officer in the insurance industry. In that time, he has developed a keen interest in the collection and use of behavioural data to better select insureds and to help them reduce their level of risk.

Visesh co-founded Shoal, to develop mechanisms to deduce underlying risk preferences for policyholders. These mechanisms were then applied to corporate cyber risk for Cyence, a cyber risk model vendor.

He continues his interest in Cyber as Chair of the Institute and Faculty of the Actuaries Cyber Risk Working Party, as a member of the Advisory Board for Kovrr, a Cyber Risk model vendor and as the Director of Catastrophe Modelling at Cowbell Cyber.

Outside of work, Visesh enjoys spending time with his wife and 6-year old son (especially when travelling) and manages to find joy in hacking round a golf course.

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Please note booking close at 1pm on Friday 17 February 2023. Thank you!

Worshipful Company of Actuaries (WCA) Annual Lecture