Flooding: The Road to Resilience

His position involves overseeing the transition towards an open market for flood insurance, aiming to ensure that as many households as possible can access affordable coverage. This includes  efforts in flood risk modelling, public awareness and adaptation strategies to improve resilience against flooding.

Before his current role, Martin has been involved in various capacities related to policy development and flood risk management. His experience includes supporting parliamentary roles and engaging with community issues related to flooding and insurance. He is also associated with the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), where he contributes to discussions on flood resilience and management practices.

Roles at the EA included their Exec Director of Operations (leading 10000 staff across England in the whole range of Regulatory, Water and Flood Management activities) and Exec Director of Flood & Coastal Risk Management. He also attended nearly 100 COBR (COBRA) crisis meetings in his time at the EA.

John is currently the President of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environment Management, lecturing at Southampton University & National Oceanographic Centre, a member of the European Resilience Network and consultant to several private sector business where he advises on environmental and climate resilience.

He brings expertise in developing and delivering flood risk strategies that balance community needs with sustainable water management solutions.

Previous roles include director of faculties at the Chartered Insurance Institute where he led market and membership engagement, and group editor in chief of insurance at Incisive Media overseeing all print, digital and event content for titles including Insurance Post, Insurance Age, Professional Broking, The Actuary, Reinsurance, Cover and Employee Rewards & Benefits. Other roles have included editor of Post Magazine, news editor of The Engineer, and deputy editor of AutoTrade.

 In her role she focuses on ensuring Flood Re is effectively engaging with key stakeholders, strengthening relationships, delivering education, and raising awareness within the industry and the wider flood sector.

Latterly as a manager focusing on repairing building damage from general perils, specifically flood and fire.

Ian has been a member of the Property Flood Resilience Roundtable and is currently Chair of the group. 

Through this Chair role, Ian also sits on the Leadership Group formed by Defra to support the actions plan of Professor Peter Bonfield’s 2025 publication of the FloodReady report, an independent review of PFR.

Ola’s background in Human-Computer Interaction and Psychology has fueled his passion for working on new approaches to risk transfer and managing risk for clients. He’s proud to be named Insurance Times Technology Champion of the Year and Chair of BIBA London and South East. Winning the headline award at the Claims Excellence Awards for outstanding claims handling and MGAA’s award for initiative of the year are his parametric highlights for 2024.

As one of the Pioneers of Parametric Insurance in the London Market, He has enjoyed building a distribution strategy for one of the first successful Parametric solutions in the London Market. He wants the market to keep improving, transforming how we cover risk and continue closing the protection gap.

Ola’s appointment at Global Parametrics as London Market Business Development Director sees his role expand to lead global growth in the parametric market at Lloyds of London-based specialist Parametric Insurance MGA who cover Extreme Weather & Natural Catastrophe exposure Globally.

Before joining BIBA, Shaune was Chairman of BIBA’s Property Committee. He has enjoyed a range of commercial and technical roles at brokers and MGAs (Managing General Agents) from pioneering electronic trading to insuring Tomorrowland DJs and royalty.

Shaune is BIBA’s technical lead for flood and cyber at BIBA, which means engaging with, and giving guidance to, the insurance industry and Government stakeholders to aid access to insurance. Shaune takes part in podcasts and panel productions on flood and cyber representing BIBA at the PFR Roundtable and working on international projects like Ransomware Payment Guidance for the Counter Ransomware Initiative.

Shaune belongs to professional working groups where he also promotes the benefits of using a broker : NCSC Cyber Insurance Industry Working Group (CIIWG), Defra PFR Roundtable, British Property Federation Flood Insurance Group, APPG on Flooding and Flooded Communities, and Personal & Commercial Lines Electronic Trading Practices Groups.

Shaune is a Classics Graduate from the University of Keele and trained in modern real estate practice and law, qualifying as a US Realtor.

She is Chartered Insurance Broker (ACII) and a member of BIBA’s Property Committee and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Advisory Board.

After spending much of her career with large blue-chip insurance organizations, Liz has successfully leveraged her expertise in product development, distribution, underwriting and data exploitation to establish a market-leading brand in flood insurance.

Liz’s deep-rooted passion for flood stems from her Thames upbringing, fuelling her dedication to educating people, driving positive change, and rebuilding customer trust in the insurance industry.

 

Gareth is Framework Director for the Environment Agency PFR Framework, is a leading expert in the delivery of Flood Re’s Build Back Better scheme and is a founding Director and Chair of the policy sub-group of IPFRA (International Property Flood Resilience Association).

Gareth sits on a number of industry working groups including the PFR Roundtable (steering committee), PFRDG (Scotland), RICS Flood Expert Working Group, Flood Re PFR Expert Working Group, The Policy Connect (Bricks and Water) Parliamentary Policy Working Group under Baroness McIntosh and the DEFRA PFR Technical Working Group.

 She also sits on a number of industry working groups including the PFR Roundtable (Steering Committee) and Defra’s PFR Technical Working Group. Shelley oversees a diverse range of complex multidisciplinary flood resilience projects for Risk Management Authority (RMA), private sector clients and insurers, and also manages the Aviva Specialist Partnership Framework for JBA, to provide Flood Risk Assessments for insurance purposes to Aviva’s commercial clients. 

Shelley is currently delivering on two of the largest PFR innovation programmes in the country as part of the Defra funded Flood Coastal Resilience Innovation Programmes (FCRIPs).  Her work on ‘Resilient Roch’, Rochdale Council’s FCRIP includes delivering a modelling, engineering and large scale PFR and backyard SuDs programme and supporting outputs for the financial resilience / flood insurance work package for two key neighbourhoods – Littleborough and Wardleworth.

 He has been working on projects in Rochdale since 2013 including the Defra Community Flood Risk Pathfinder and the Rochdale Flood Poverty Project.  Paul was Chief Executive of the National Flood Forum between 2011 and 2022, a national charity that supports and represents flood risk communities.  He previously worked on a range of operational projects in environmental land management in the private and public sectors and in environmental policy in Government Office for the West Midlands and Defra.

She now works independently, raising awareness, advising households and promoting practical ways to reduce flood damage and improve resilience and recovery through education, community engagement and policy influence.

Mary runs her own consultancy FloodMary.com specialising in PFR. She is the author of an eBook ‘Property Flood Resilience, Stories from homes and businesses who have made adaptations to help them recover more quickly after a flood’ Mary has recently published a new directory entitled ‘Making your Home Flood Ready, Directory of Property Flood Resilience Products’ & Co- Authored the Household Guide to Flood Recovery.

His work focuses on portfolio analysis for the insurance and reinsurance sectors, as well as international development and global resilience projects that quantify the impacts of extreme flooding on communities and infrastructure.

 

He has held senior roles in the Head Office claims function in the General Insurance Department of a Bank both managing high value / complex claims and overseeing both the Household and Motor claims supply chain functions.

He has also held senior supply chain management roles with a BPO organisation, with responsibility for procurement, supplier relationship management and conducting audits of a wide range of Home and Motor suppliers including undertaking a review of legal services providers.

David is the Managing Director of UK Claims Consulting Limited which is primarily involved in the audit of delegated claims administrators operating in the Lloyd’s and London Market.

 
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