Insurance and Reinsurance

Insurance Thought Leadership Featured David K.A. Mordecai and Samantha Kappagoda in Article Entitled How to Create Risk Transparency

Dr. David K.A. Mordecai, President of Risk Economics and Samantha Kappagoda, Chief Economist of Risk Economics were featured by Insurance Thought Leadership in an article entitled How to Create Risk Transparency.

David Mordecai is President and Co-Founder of Risk Economics and Visiting Scholar at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU, advising research activities at RiskEcon^® Lab for Decision Metrics @ Courant Institute. Samantha Kappagoda is Chief Economist and Co-Founder of Risk Economics and Visiting Scholar at Courant Institute, co-advising research activities at RiskEcon^® Lab.

About Risk Economics
Risk Economics provides advisory services at the intersection of commercial business-process engineering and risk engineering with a particular focus on coupling commercial reinsurance and financial technology, through the rigorous application of agent-based, demographic, and statistical methodologies to microeconomic and macroeconomic analytics.

David K.A. Mordecai was Invited to Speak at the RIMS 2016 Conference

David K.A. Mordecai, President of Risk Economics was invited to speak at the RIMS 2016 Conference in San Diego, CA on April 12, 2016.

David K.A. Mordecai’s presentation was entitled Adaptive Response to Cyberphysical Infrastructure Risk: The State of the Art. His fellow panelists for the session, which was entitled Cyber Terrorism: Protecting Critical Infrastructure, were the following:

Steve Mikhlin, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Russell Kennedy, BRIT Global Specialty

David Mordecai is President and Co-Founder of Risk Economics, a New York City based advisory firm, specializing in the application of computational economics to the proprietary development and scalable implementation of robust modeling and data analytic frameworks for valuation, strategic and systemic risk analysis, and dynamic asset-liability management. The scope of activities includes applying the expertise of Risk Economics in product development, as well as FinTech strategy and process engineering, to the commercialization of R&D for risk and liability management analytics.

About RIMS

RIMS 2016 is the annual conference of RIMS, the risk management society™. RIMS is the preeminent organization dedicated to advancing the practice of risk management, is a global not-for-profit organization representing more than 3,500 industrial, service, nonprofit, charitable and government entities throughout the world”. Founded in 1950, RIMS brings networking, professional development and education opportunities to its membership of more than 11,000 risk management professionals who are located in more than 60 countries. For more information, visit: https://www.rims.org/.

David K.A. Mordecai was Invited to Speak at the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds (AASCIF) 2015 CEO Conference

David K.A. Mordecai was invited to speak at the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds (AASCIF) 2015 CEO Conference on November 10, 2015 at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. He addressed the CEOs of over 20 Workers’ Compensation Insurance companies, delivering an presentation on Business Process Enhancements Along Intersections in the Insurance (and Reinsurance) Value-Chain.

David Mordecai is President of Risk Economics and advises research activities at RiskEcon^® Lab for Decision Metrics @ Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU.

The American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds, is an association of workers’ compensation insurance companies from 26 different states, in an addition to 8 workers’ compensation boards in Canada. In the US, these companies, loosely referred to as state funds, each specialize in writing workers’ compensation insurance in a single state. Some of these companies operate as private insurance companies, whereas others act as agencies of their respective state governments. In Canada, all workers’ compensation insurance is provided through workers’ compensation boards, which have complete jurisdictional and administrative powers related to workers’ compensation in their respective provinces.

About Risk Economics, Inc.

Risk Economics specializes in economic analysis of risk and liability. It provides advisory services at the intersection of commercial business-process engineering and risk engineering with a particular focus on coupling commercial reinsurance and financial technology, through the rigorous application of agent-based, demographic, and statistical methodologies to microeconomic and macroeconomic analytics.

The Risk Economics^® client roster is diverse and includes governmental and quasi-governmental agencies, global insurance and reinsurance firms, leading law firms, technology firms, global banking institutions, asset management firms, multinational corporations with interests in natural resources, commodities, and energy, as well as government agencies and regulators.

Samantha Kappagoda and David K.A. Mordecai were Invited to Speak at the WCF Insurance Board of Directors Annual Meeting

Samantha Kappagoda and David K.A. Mordecai were invited to speak at the WCF Insurance (Utah) Board of Directors Annual Retreat in St. George, UT. At the invitation of Ray Pickup, President and CEO of WCF, they addressed the Board to discuss prospective Workers’ Compensation Pilot Projects.

David Mordecai and Samantha Kappagoda are President and Chief Economist, respectively, of Risk Economics, and co-advise research activities at RiskEcon^® Lab for Decision Metrics @ Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU.

David K.A. Mordecai and Samantha Kappagoda were Invited to Speak at the AASCIF Annual Conference

David K.A. Mordecai and Samantha Kappagoda were invited to speak at the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds (AASCIF) Annual Conference, where they made a presentation entitled Workers’ Compensation Pilot Projects. The presentation took place on July 8, 2015 in San Francisco, CA.

David Mordecai and Samantha Kappagoda are President and Chief Economist, respectively, of Risk Economics, and co-lead research activities at RiskEcon^® Lab for Decision Metrics @ Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU.

David K.A. Mordecai was Invited to Speak at the AASCIF Mid-Year CEO Conference

David K.A. Mordecai, President of Risk Economics was invited to speak at the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds (AASCIF) Mid-Year CEO Conference on April 30, 2015 in Arlington, VA.

David K.A. Mordecai’s presentation was entitled Cyborg Commerce, Pervasive Computing, Cyber-Physical Digitization and the Deep Web: RiskTech Applications of Tertiary Data and Implications for Navigating Emergent Risk within Workers’ Compensation Exposures.