Dr Philip Conway offers the unique intersection of skills and expertise that make him perfect for the job of the Perils Pricing Manager at Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG).

He has a background in engineering with a PhD in hydrodynamic modelling along with extensive working experience in natural disaster control as a flood engineer. Prior to joining IAG, he was Flood Engineer and Design Engineer at WMAwater and Atkins respectively. He has also written and published multiple papers on related subject areas. His research topics include Australian flood risk to climate drivers and role of exposure, capital, and infrastructure in post-disaster recovery among others.

IAG is Australia and New Zealand's largest general insurance company. The company has been helping people recover from natural disasters, accidents, and loss since 1851. They provide insurance services under many leading brands in Australia and New Zealand. They underwrite over $11 billion of premium per annum. Extending beyond paying claims, the organisation is increasing awareness of risk and helping communities reduce and prevent risk.

At IAG, Philip leads a team for natural perils and reinsurance pricing engine development and advises c-suite executives on regulatory protection level requirements and group stress tests. He has also worked on numerous solution designs and developments related to address-level earthquake rates, benchmarking of vendor catastrophe models, deterministic volcano model, generating storm damage footprints, flood risk, and climate change.

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