Prof Swenja Surminski is Managing Director Climate and Sustainability at Marsh McLennan, responsible for thought leadership and capacity building across sectors and geographies, working on innovative risk solutions with colleagues from Marsh, Mercer, Oliver Wyman and Guy Carpenter. She is also Professor in Practice at the Grantham Research Institute, part of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she oversees work on the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance and on the EU-funded Naturance project, developing innovative insurance approaches for nature based solutions. In 2022 Swenja was appointed by the UK Government to the UK Committee on Climate Change – serving on the adaptation committee and since 2024 on both mitigation and adaptation committees. Since 2021 she is also the elected chair of the not for profit Munich Climate Insurance Initiative, hosted at the United Nations University in Bonn. MCII is the world’s longest running think tank on climate insurance and resilience solutions for most vulnerable communities.