Articles by Robert Muir-Wood

Robert Muir-Wood, chief research officer, for Moody's RMS, works to enhance approaches to natural catastrophe modeling, identify models for new areas of risk, and explore expanded applications for catastrophe modeling. He has more than 25 years of experience developing probabilistic catastrophe models. He was lead author for the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and 2011 IPCC Special Report on Extremes, and is chair of the OECD panel on the Financial Consequences of Large Scale Catastrophes. He is the author of seven books, most recently: "The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters." He holds a degree in natural sciences and a doctorate both from Cambridge University and is a visiting professor at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London.