Terrorism modelling: "Extreme Measures" published in The Actuary

Whilst my doctoral work has yet to see any/much publication, for (re)insurance work whilst at Aon Benfield's Impact Forecasting, I was a contributing author to the article which made the front page of the October 2011 issue of The Actuary*. If the embedded version below is not showing, the article can be seen at:

http://goo.gl/hXrsP

Further coverage at http://goo.gl/2DHYX and http://goo.gl/nLxjV (P 29). The other author and contributors were Aon Benfield's Scott Reid, FFA, L&G's Andy Cox, Aon Crisis Management's Chris Holt, MBE and independent consultant Stephen Johnson.


* The Actuary is the publication of the UK’s accrediting body; the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries / Actuarial Profession.

Piracy economics and mitigation

The cat and mouse evolution between the sophistication of the pirates and the innovation in mitigation goes on. Geopolicity have a paper on piracy economics:

http://www.geopolicity.com/upload/content/pub_1305229189_regular.pdf

It’s more involved than one might think. And pirates have been upping the game and showing uncommon solidarity with their peers:

http://www.wired.com/2011/04/pirates-to-india-this-time-its-personal/

Discovery News also have an article on Piracy Attack Risk Surface (PARS), a model developed by the US Navy to predict piracy hotspots:

http://news.discovery.com/tech/anti-pirate-software-navy-110523.htm

I still find it somewhat difficult to believe that amazingly, piracy has returned as a facet of our modern lives:

http://www.southparkstudios.co.uk/clips/225458/somalian-pirates-we