Beyond Claims – How Insurance Market Is Navigating Natural Catastrophe Events

Dr Frank Schiller has been Head of Risk Analytics and Reporting in Integrated Risk Management at Munich Re since 2024 and holds the Actuarial Function for the Munich Re Group. Prior to this, he was Head of Actuarial & Pricing for Life and Health Reinsurance at Munich Re for the European and Middle Eastern markets from 2015. In this position, he was responsible for pricing, data analytics and business development. Prior to this appointment, he was Chief Risk Officer at Swiss Life from 2011 to 2015, initially for the Swiss market and later as a member of the Executive Board for the German market. From 2001 to 2011, he held various positions as an actuary and risk manager at ERGO Direkt and Munich Re.

Dr Frank Schiller is a member of the Executive Board and Chair of the Enterprise Risk Management Committee of the German Actuarial Association (DAV). He is a member of the Executive Board of the Actuarial Association of Europe (AAE) and was previously Deputy Chairman of the Risk Management Committee and Chairman of the Sustainability and Climate Risk Working Group.

Dr Frank Schiller holds a degree in mathematics and a doctorate in stochastics from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Frank has been a certified actuary (DAV) since 2004 and a certified enterprise risk actuary (CERA) since 2013.

Alexandra is a data scientist in sustainable finance with a PhD in climate research. Her work focused on extreme events and climate variability, contributing to several projects in climate science. She now applies this expertise to bridge climate science and finance, with a focus on understanding and quantifying physical climate risks.

Norbert Holczinger is the Head of Sustainable Finance Department at the Central Bank of Hungary (MNB). He is responsible for the MNB’s Green Programme. He coordinates supervisory actions to identify and mitigate environmental risks and to expand green financial services in Hungary. Norbert graduated as a Quantitative Economic Analyst, also holds a Finance and MBA degree. Currently he is a PhD student at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. 

Gábor has spent over three decades in the insurance industry, mostly as an actuary serving insurers as an employee, an external adviser, and an external auditor in Hungary and in the Central Eastern European region. He has played a significant role in advancing the actuarial profession and professional actuarial associations in Hungary, in Europe and globally.