AIR creates global resilience platform

AIR Worldwide (AIR) has developed a global resilience practice, a structure to support risk reduction and resilience initiatives across the globe.

The purpose of these features is to develop solutions that help society’s attempts to better prepare for and recover from catastrophes.

Daniel Kaniewski, vice president, global resilience, will join AIR to manage this new practice.

“I’m extremely excited to join an innovative company like AIR and take on the challenge of developing the company’s public risk strategy,” said Kaniewski.

“I look forward to assisting organisations in applying catastrophe modeling to financing disaster risk and to expanding AIR’s already strong collaborations with the United Nations, the World Bank, the US National Flood Insurance Program, insurance regulatory bodies across the globe, and distinguished research groups.”

The roles that the global resilience practice aims to achieve are to develop solutions that help prepare for catastrophes, assist companies in applying catastrophe modeling to disaster risk financing, establish alliances with organisations that provide data for AIR model development and strengthen relationships with regulatory bodies and rating agencies globally.

Kaniewski has lead crisis, risk and resilience with two decades of experience as a management consulting executive, presidential advisor, thought leader, educator and first responder.

He has served as a senior advisor in the White House during major crises and as a trusted security expert to numerous governmental and nongovernmental organisations.