Eric Gesick

Eric Gesick is an insurance expert with nearly three decades of experience in the global (re)insurance industry and over the last two years has been examining climate risk issues and solutions through academic research and advisory services.

Eric has most recently served as the Global Chief Actuary of PartnerRe and as the Global Chief Actuary, Global Chief Risk Officer, and Global Chief Underwriting Officer of AXIS Capital, with leadership responsibilities including pricing, portfolio management, underwriting standards, reserving, ERM, natural catastrophe modeling, exposure management, and capital modeling for multiple lines of business, including liability, property, and specialty insurance.

Through academic research as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, and in collaboration with a research team at Brookings Institution, he has co-authored 2 papers, Flying blind: What do investors really know about climate change risks in the U.S. equity and municipal debt markets? (2020) and Inviting danger: How federal disaster, insurance and infrastructure policies are magnifying the harm of climate change (2021), and a New York Times guest essay We’re Not Ready for the Next Big Climate Disasters (2021).

Eric is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and a CFA Charterholder.