Erwann Michel-Kerjan

Erwann Michel-Kerjan is a leading voice on strategy and risk management, resilience and value creation, and is a Partner at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He previously sat as the Chairman of the OECD Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Financial Management of Catastrophes and served in a senior capacity at the Wharton Business School.

For a decade, Michel-Kerjan was attached to the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Here he was the Executive Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, and taught Value Creation on Wharton’s MBA Programme. During this time, he also served in an advisory capacity to the President of Chile, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank Group, and was a member of the board at the Scor Foundation, and of the stakeholders advisory board at AXA Group. As Chairman of the OECD Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Financial Management of Catastrophes for ten years, he helped advise finance ministries across 35 countries and many parties from the private sector.

Michel-Kerjan has written or contributed to over 70 publications, and his expertise is frequently sought on subjects including managing extreme events, insurance, and behavioural science. He has been a regular contributor to Bloomberg, and appeared in the documentary series How to Survive the End of the World. His work has appeared on CNN and the BBC, and in publications such as the Financial Times, the Economist and the Wall Street Journal. He was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and received the Kulp-Wright award in 2011.