Sebastian Rath (Past Speaker)

Dr. Sebastian Rath is Principal Insurance Risk Officer at NN GROUP. He oversees and shapes NN’s international CRO functions, with their commercial and risk activities across 13 international markets. He joined NN Group at the time of its IPO as standalone company from ING Group. Throughout his professional career Sebastian addressed transformational modelling and capital management themes. He began with a PhD automating the use of big-data for large scale flood risk models. He joined RMS in London, building two national high-resolution catastrophe risk models. With HISCOX he was responsible for modelling, underwriting and pricing of global reinsurance. With the financial crisis and following regulation supported KPMG's clients and lead their projects, bringing Solvency II alive across Europe. Now based in Amsterdam, Sebastian is active across a number of EU markets with a wide range of products. As regular conference speaker he shapes operating models and attention points for Financial Services across global, ethical and sustainable value chains. On behalf of NN Group Sebastian is active with initiatives of Insurance Europe and the CRO Forum. As affiliate of the UK Institute of Risk Management Sebastian published two papers, on flood risk management and another on the use of blockchains in insurance risk management.