Dr. Auguste Boissonnade has more than 30 years of experience in managing and developing natural hazard risk models  around the world. He is currently leading the development of state-of-the art wildfire modeling capabilities. He has been working at Moody’s RMS since 1992 where he was the original architect of the RMS hurricane catastrophe loss model for the US and subsequently led the technical developments of hurricane, tornado, hail and wildfire catastrophe models, weather derivatives risk products, and the ‘Post Event Loss Amplification’ modules that explicitly consider the potential indirect economic impacts following catastrophic events on insurance claims.

Auguste was detached to Asia Risk Centre (ARC) between 2012 and 2016, as Chief Technical Officer leading the development of (re)insurance crop risk models and weather-based indices agricultural contracts with teams in the United Kingdom, California, Singapore and India. Before joining Moody’s RMS, Auguste was project leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), USA. Auguste received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.