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Welcome to The Risk Opportunity
How do companies use risk to create resilience? How can they turn adversity into opportunity? Bloomberg Media Studios and Zurich host this series of conversations that explore the global risks affecting us all. From climate change, to conflict, from technology to security, each episode will ask the experts how we can face the future better prepared.

Listen to our first episode - Using Risk to Build Resilience
We are living in an age of unprecedented change. As we confront familiar challenges such as inflation and rising interest rates, how can we minimize their impact on the modern world? Financial analyst and broadcaster Danni Hewson sits down with global risk experts, John Scott, Head of Sustainability Risk at Zurich Insurance Company and Dr Sarah Gordon, CEO at Satarla, to explore how these challenges can offer an opportunity to build resilience – and even change for the better.

The Zurich Resilience Solutions team chat about how we can become resilient to, and plan for, supply chain disruption.

Hear from Alan Ross (host), Insights Consultant, Nnamdi Ahuchogu, Supply Chain Specialist, Vicky Gibson, Business Continuity and Enterprise Risk Management Specialist, and Alastair Thompson, Zurich UK Large Complex Claims Manager.

The Zurich Resilience Solutions team chat about the increasing importance of sustainability in supply chains.
Hear from Alan Ross (host), Insights Consultant, Nnamdi Ahuchogu, Supply Chain Specialist, Chris Minter, Head of Sustainable Sourcing  and Spencer Owner, Head of Commercial Claims Relationship Management, Zurich UK

Working towards a universal metric to quantify nature's impact on climate change is an essential ingredient in the search for sustainability.

A job in the commercial insurance industry can be termed an “accidental occupation” for many people who find themselves working there, and rare is the tale of an enterprising young person who set their sights on making a career of it. But there are exceptions, and their experience shows that attitudes about insurance are often misplaced and the business’s role in society is generally underrated.

A look at what organizations and communities should do to adapt to extreme-weather events and the role that insurers can play in making the world more resilient to the effects of climate change.

China’s property crisis keeps evolving. So far, an escalation of the latest mortgage boycott could be avoided through intervention by China’s authorities. 

Julien Seetharamdoo,  Head of European Market Strategy and Thomas Liebi, Head of US & UK Market Strategy

As the recent increase in commodity prices proves to be a double-edged sword for LatAm, with winners and losers, we examine its economic and financial impacts.

In the wake of the Ukraine crisis, pandemic challenges, supply chain woes and cyber risks, how can businesses adapt to risk and build resilience. We are joined by Guy Miller, Chief Market Strategist and Head of Macroeconomics, and Eugenie Molyneux, Chief Risk Officer of Commercial Insurance – from Zurich Insurance Group.