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Risky Science Podcast — 54 episodes

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1

Hal King on Food Safety, Outbreak Risk, and Financial Cross-Contamination

2

Karen Clark on AI, Frequency Perils, and Why Reinsurers Stopped Trusting the Models

3

Insurance Isn't Just Transferring Risk Anymore

4

Can Big Tech Become The Next Insurance Company?

5

Private Capital, Public Flood: Risky Science Live

6

Jane Kim and California's Insurance "Hostage Situation"

7

The Price Is the Forecast

8

Risk Doesn't Disappear, It Gets Allocated

9

Venezuela, The Built Environment And Lessons of a Catastrophic Earthquake

10

Sticky Liabilities, Illiquid Assets and the Private Credit Perception Gap

11

2026 Hurricane Season: Risk, Markets, Models

12

Ebola, Statistics, and What Pandemic Science Can Teach Markets

13

Wildfire's Garbage-In Problem With Brian Bastian

14

Modeling Every Risk for Every Client with Willis' Ben Fidlow

15

The Wrong Model for the Wrong Job With Roy Wright

16

The LA Fires and the Risk Market Value Chain With Joy Chen

17

How Catastrophe Models Work and Where They Fall Short With Anil Vasagiri

18

Why Mixing Catastrophes With Prediction Markets Is More Dangerous Than It Looks With Jamie Pietruska

19

AI, Models, and the Limits of Climate Assumptions with Sarah Kapnick

20

Can Models Still Work When Everything Changes at Once? With Christiane Baumeister

21

(Preview) China's Growing Risk Data Moat and the US Brain Drain With Hui Su

22

Confidence as a Service With Eric Winsberg

23

(Preview) The $232 Billion Storm No One Is Pricing With Moody's Chris Lafakis

24

How Hurricane Risk Really Gets Priced with Dr. Ben Collier

25

Black Box Problems, Machine Judgment and the Rules Nobody's Written Yet With Daniel Schwarcz

26

AI Risk, Markets and Modeling the Unknown With Daniel Reti

27

Prediction Markets, Parametrics and Rethinking Weather Risk With Dr. Partick Brown

28

Greenland, Venezuela and the New Political Risk Model Reality with WTW’s Sam Wilkin

29

Cyber Risk in 2026 and Why Near Misses Matter More Than Losses With Morgan Hervé-Mignucci

30

Climate, Markets and the Limits of Insurability with Dave Jones

31

Climate, Catastrophe Models and the Limits of Prediction with Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.

32

Housing Prices, Climate Signals and Reinsurance Shocks with Dr. Philip Mulder

33

Weather, Risk & Europe’s Energy Upheaval with TP ICAP’s Tim Boyce

34

Pandemics, Models and the Limits of Securitization with Dr. Susan Erikson

35

Opening China’s Weather Risk Markets with climateHedge’s Jim Huang

36

Sweet Earnings, Sour Investors and the Insurance Cycle Reset with KBW’s Meyer Shields

37

Building Trust In AI-Driven Weather and Risk Models With Dr. Hansi Singh

38

From Models to Markets and Future of Catastrophe Risk with Dr. Paul Wilson

39

AI, Climate, Catastrophe and Why Markets Need To Rethink Risk with Dr. Seth Baum

40

Prediction markets and disrupting insurance with Kalshi's Shannon Magiera

41

Climate, Correlation, and Cat Bond Investing with Plenum Investments’ Dirk Schmelzer

42

Why Trust, Transparency, and Testing Define the Future of Cat Bonds And Models with KCC’s Karen Clark

43

The Modeled Through Line from Hurricane Katrina to Cyber Catastrophe Risk with Fermat Capital’s John Seo

44

Pricing and Modeling Wildfire Risk in the Nation's Most Expensive Housing Market with Stanford's Michael Wara

45

Severe Convective Storms are Reshaping Insurance and Modeling with Dr. Victor Gensini

46

Cascading Risks And a Cascadia Mega Quake With Dr. Tina Dura

47

Multi‑Hazard Events, Messy Data and Climate Insurance Models with Michiel Ingels

48

Floods, Risk Models, and the Future of Insurance With ReThought's Cory Isaacson

49

Modeling Pandemic Risk: Dr. Neil Ferguson on the Future of Epidemiology, Policy, and Private Markets

50

Multi-Hazard Modeling, AI, and the Future of Risk With Paolo Bocchini

51

Wargaming, Combat Modeling, and Escalation Risk With CNA’s Dr. Jeremy Sepinsky

52

Open Models, Collaboration, and Catastrophe Risk With Oasis’s Dickie Whitaker

53

Private Credit, Liquidity, Longevity and Life Insurance With S&P’s Carmi Margalit

54

Modeling Risk in a Non-Stationary Climate with Dr. Daniel Swain