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Ep 67: Barney Schauble, Chairman, Nephila Climate

Podcast |: My Climate Journey
Publisher |: Jason Jacobs, Cody Simms, Yin Lu
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Climate Change,; Interview,; Science & Medicine
Categories Via RSS |: Business,; Science,; Technology
Publication Date |: Dec 30, 2019
Episode Duration |: 01:04:37

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Today’s guest is Barney Schauble, Chairman, Nephila Climate, the world's largest asset manager dedicated to weather and catastrophe insurance risks.

Barney joined Nephila Capital in 2004 as a Managing Partner and moved to San Francisco in 2010 to set up Nephila Advisors. Barney is the Chair of the Board of Nephila Climate (NCx), and also a Director of Nephila Capital Ltd. and Nephila Holdings Ltd.

Barney is the Head of Nephila Labs, where his primary responsibilities include oversight of research and insurtech; he is also involved in investor relations and business development. Barney began working in re/insurance in New York in 1993 as a broker for Marsh and Guy Carpenter. He joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in their Risk Markets group in 1996, where he helped to execute the first catastrophe bond and spent six years working on development and distribution of catastrophe andweather-linked products. Barney joined XL Capital in 2003 and was head of marketing for the weather risk management business.

Barney attended Harvard College and received his BA in Economics in 1995. He wrote his senior thesis to explore investing in bonds linked to property catastrophe reinsurance risk. He served as a Director of The Climate Corporation (2007-2012), MetroMile (2009-2011), and Advisen (2014-2016). He is Chair of the Board of Ceres (a non-profit devoted to sustainable capitalism) where he has been a Director since 2011. He is also an advisor and/or board member of several insurance-related technology companies.

In today’s episode, we cover:

Overview of Nephila, and of reinsurance, in general
History of the reinsurance market
Founding story of Nephila, and Barney’s experience leading up to that
The nature of Nephila’s work and how it has evolved over time
How Barney thinks about climate change, and his thinking has evolved over time
Barney’s views on climate risk, and short-term/long-term considerations looking into the future
Barney’s views on the best ways to solve
Barney’s work at Ceres, and why it is important
Is the reinsurance market a leading or lagging indicator of climate risk?
The role of policy
How Barney would allocate a big pot of money to maximize its impact in the climate fight
Barney’s advice for how you and I can help

Links to topics discussed in this episode:

Nephila Climate: https://www.nephilaclimate.com/
Swiss Re: https://www.swissre.com/
Munich Re: https://www.munichre.com/en.html
SCOR: https://www.scor.com/en
Marsh & McLennan: https://www.mmc.com/
World Bank: https://www.worldbank.org/
Ceres: https://www.ceres.org/
Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures: tcfd.org/">https://www.fsb-tcfd.org/

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Today’s guest is Barney Schauble, Chairman, Nephila Climate, the world's largest asset manager dedicated to weather and catastrophe insurance risks. Barney joined Nephila Capital in 2004 as a Managing Partner and moved to San Francisco in 2010 to set up Nephila Advisors. Barney is the Chair of the Board of Nephila Climate (NCx), and also a Director of Nephila Capital Ltd. and Nephila Holdings Ltd. We dig deep in this one into Nephila's work, the reinsurance industry in general, what is happening on the front lines there as it relates to climate change, and what the implications are as we look into the future. Important episode, you won't want to miss it. Enjoy the show!