Events
When
23/02/2022, 10:00 - 12:00
Where
SAIA Climate Change Webinar 2022
Significant changes in weather patterns over the last decade have led to flood disasters, droughts, and wildfires. This has cost both government and the private sector, especially the insurance industry billions of Rands collectively. The SAIA Climate Change Webinar 2022 will focus on the challenges and the risks faced by all stakeholders in SA and globally, especially the non-life insurance industry because of these changes in weather patterns.
This webinar brings a platform upon which experienced subject matter specialists share their insights on various issues affecting the non-life insurance industry.
Significant changes in weather patterns over the last decade have led to flood disasters, droughts, and wildfires. This has cost both government and the private sector, especially the insurance industry billions of Rands collectively. The SAIA Climate Change Webinar 2022 will focus on the challenges and the risks faced by all stakeholders in SA and globally, especially the non-life insurance industry because of these changes in weather patterns.
This webinar brings a platform upon which experienced subject matter specialists share their insights on various issues affecting the non-life insurance industry.
Speakers
Dr. Davis-Reddy, Data Science Team Lead at the uLwazi Node of the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON).
Dr. Davis-Reddy is the Data Science Team Lead at the uLwazi Node of SAEON. Her primary directive as Team Lead is to improve SAEON’s data products, atlas portals and views in order to facilitate effective data- and evidence-driven decision-making. She has a PhD from the University of Stellenbosch specialising in the fields of remote sensing, vegetation modelling and climate change. Her PhD research investigated the dynamics of vegetation phenology and productivity over Sub-Saharan Africa in response to climate variability and change and how this information can be used to strengthen the ability of Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) to predict vegetation change. More recently, she was part of the core research team that produced the Green Book - an online tool that supports the development of climate resilient settlements by facilitating the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into local government planning instruments and processes. Dr. Davis-Reddy has served as the Chairperson of the Adaptation Network of South Africa and the Arid Zone Ecology Forum. She also serves as a reviewer for several international and national scientific journals.
Jane March, Chief Executive Officer, Guy Carpenter SA.Jane March is the Chief Executive Officer of Guy Carpenter South Africa and former Managing Director of placement at Marsh.
After spending the past 21 years working at Marsh LLC on its business in Africa, in September she moved to its reinsurance broking operations as CEO of Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC’s South Africa unit. While at Marsh, she was named national placement leader in 2016, and was instrumental in growing the brokerage’s mining practice across the continent. Guy Carpenter and Marsh combined their South Africa facultative reinsurance operations into a single business, with the merged unit operating from 1 January 2022 under the Guy Carpenter brand. The combined facultative operation “offers carriers a more efficient and effective way to access the full breadth of our facultative capabilities”. Guy Carpenter places more than US$1.6 billion in facultative reinsurance globally.
Dr Musiwalo Moses Khangale (PhD), former Director: Fire Services within the National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC).
Dr Musiwalo Moses Khangale is the former Director: Fire Services within the National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) since 01 June 2011 until 31 January 2022. Before then he was a Deputy Director responsible for the administration and oversight of the National Veld and Forest Fire Act, (Act No. 101 of 1998) within the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Dr Khangale also served as a Manager of Disaster Management for the Tlokwe Local Municipality, North West Province from 2007 – 2009. Dr Khangale also worked in the City of Tshwane as an Emergency Services Official and a Disaster Management Officer from 2001 to 2007. Among other qualifications, Dr Khangale holds a Diploma in Disaster Management, and BTECH in Public Management, both from the University of South Africa. He also holds a Masters in Disaster Management from the University of the Free State, and a PhD in Development and Management through the North-West University on the topic: A Model for Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction in national multi-sectoral planning in South Africa. As Director: Fire Services, within the National Disaster Management Centre Dr Khangale was entrusted with the responsibility to coordinate implementation of Fire Brigade Services Act in the country and contributing to the regional and global disaster risk reduction agenda.