I am an insurance broker with over thirty years’ experience, working in Australia, the UK, the US and throughout Asia.  My professional expertise is in the areas of negligence and fraud, and I have worked with some of the world’s largest financial institutions and healthcare groups. My current role is Regional Director, Healthcare for Lockton Companies Asia, based in Singapore.

The idea of writing Catastrophe developed slowly.  Over the years, insurance people shared fascinating stories with me about how the largest claims were handled.  For my own benefit, I began jotting down these stories and relating them to friends and colleagues.

Then, in the mid-1990s when I was a young broker, catastrophic asbestos and toxic waste claims almost collapsed the Lloyd’s market in London.  Subsequently, an investigative reporter named Adam Raphael published Ultimate Risk: The Inside Story of the Lloyd’s Catastrophe.  This was the first book about insurance I had ever read, and I began to wonder if one day I might write a book of my own.

As my career progressed, I witnessed the impact of catastrophic loss firsthand.  The collapse of HIH Insurance generated chaos in both the Australian economy and its insurance market.  I was working in Singapore when the 2004 Asian Tsunami killed as many as 100,000 across Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka.  During the 2008 Global Financial Crisis I saw thousands queued outside AIA Insurance offices trying to redeem life policies they feared would soon be worthless.  The catastrophes made the news, but the insurance response did not.

This book is my attempt to change that.

Outside work, I train in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, commute to work by bicycle, and regularly smoke out my apartment with ham-fisted attempts at cooking.  I read a great deal, and am studying for a Masters by distance education.  

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