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This site provides an access point to the valuable information presented at, and generated by the Risk Mitigation Leadership Forums.

The Forums are a series of invitation-only events, bringing together academics, scientists, and public and private sector representatives to advance risk mitigation efforts and awareness.

The Forums seek to achieve the following goals:

  • Identify key factors relating to preserving life and safety, as well as the economic impacts of natural disasters to the United States.
  • Engage with leading public policy makers who have to manage catastrophic risk in relations to societal needs.
  • Explore current initiatives in the areas of building mitigation, hazard mitigation and risk financing, as well as how these initiatives can be commercially and economically deployed to mitigate risk.
  • Explore and promulgate the best scientific research relating to the risks of natural perils, and how they may be mitigated or avoided.
  • Create an environment of exchange so participants can interchange ideas and capitalize on insights generated at each event.

"Fundamentals about risk are its nonlinearity and its uncertainty."

Sai Ravela, Professor and Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"If people have a choice between an extra bathroom or a mitigated house, help me make it compelling for them not to go for the extra bathroom..."

Kristin Beall, Contractor/TV Host

"Together the insurance industry and the capital markets form an important force for risk capacity. Insurers provide expertise; investors provide capital."

Aditya Dutt, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley


The RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences Foundation has been honored with the Outstanding Achievement Award for Mitigation by the 2011 National Hurricane Conference. The award recognizes the Risk Mitigation Leadership Forum Series and its five Forums held to date as "an outstanding and innovative achievement, worthy of emulation by others around the country." Pictured are (from left to right): Bill Read, Director, National Hurricane Center; Stephen Weinstein, Chairman, RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences Foundation; Eric Williford, Senior Scientist, WeatherPredict Consulting Inc.; and Max Mayfield, Former Director, National Hurricane Center. (Photo: Business Wire)