Dickie Whitaker has 40 years’ experience in the (Re)Insurance business and for the last 20 years has specialised in risk and innovation, linking academia, government and finance. He co-founded The Lighthill Risk Network, Oasis Palm Tree Ltd, The Oasis Hub, Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Network for finance and is chief executive of Oasis Loss Modelling Framework Ltd. He does or did provide advisory roles to:

UK’s Satellite Applications Advisory Board,

UK actuarial Institute Research & Thought Leadership Committee

Expert Group for the Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF), UNISDRR The Centre for Risk Studies Cambridge University

Cabot Institute advisory board.

EU Climate Adaption mission assembly member