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Paul K. Freeman, Project Leader
Paul Freeman is the Leader of
the Natural Catastrophes and Developing Countries (CAT) Project at the
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.
Mr. Freeman received his Juris Doctoris from Harvard University in 1975,
and is currently completing a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of
Vienna. At IIASA, Mr. Freeman has been focusing his attention on the use
of alternative risk transfer techniques for developing countries. Of particular
concern is the application of sophisticated financial techniques for the
transfer of catastrophic risk exposures. This research builds on his extensive
experience until June 1997 as the founder and Chief Executive Officer
of the specialty environmental insurance companies, ERIC. Mr. Freeman
is currently a member of the Corporate Advisory Board for the Wharton
School Risk and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania,
and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Deutsche Bank Asset Management
in the US, which supervises 14 Deutsche Bank sponsored US mutual funds.
He is also a consultant to the World Bank on risk transfer strategy for
developing countries, recent studies of which has included Argentina and
Mexico. He has published several articles on the subject of risk transfer
for developing countries and environmental insurance, and published a
book with Howard Kunreuther of the Wharton School on Managing Environmental
Risk through Insurance in 1997.
Email:
freeman@iiasa.ac.at
Barbara Hauser, Project Administrator
Barbara Hauser is
the Project Administrator for the Natural Catastrophes and Developing
Countries Project. Barbara brings to the group many years of experience
in project administration after having worked over the past years with
many of IIASA's major scientific projects. In addition to her administrative
duties she is responsible for maintaining the project's web site.
Email: hauser@iiasa.ac.at
Leslie Martin, Research Scholar
Leslie Martin is a Research
Scholar in the Natural Catastrophes and Developing Countries Project.
Her work focuses on modeling the effect of natural catastrophe shocks
on the economies of developing countries in order to evaluate the potential
benefit of risk transfer. Ms. Martin completed a bachelor's degree in
mathematics with a minor in economics in 1998 at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Email: martin@iiasa.ac.at
Reinhard Mechler, Guest Research Scholar
Reinhard Mechler is a Guest
Research Scholar investigating costs of natural disasters in developing
countries and strategies to reduce these costs. His task is to analyze
and model impacts of natural disasters on macroeconomic variables. This
research will be applied to several case studies of the effects of catastrophes
in selected developing countries. Since 1998, Mr. Mechler has been working
on his Ph.D. in the doctoral program "Natural Disasters" at the University
of Karlsruhe, Germany sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
He studied economics, mathematics and English at Heidelberg University,
Germany and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA).
Email: mechler@iiasa.ac.at
Koko Warner, Research Scholar
Koko Warner studied economics
at the University of Vienna and received her Ph.D. from the Department
of Economics in 1999. She also serves as adjunct professor of economics
at Webster University, lecturing on macroeconomics. Her
research as an economist in the CAT project involves investigating the
impacts of natural catastrophes on economic growth and poverty. In particular,
she examines the relationship between infrastructure and growth, estimating
the vulnerability of key components of this infrastructure to losses from
catastrophic events. Before
coming to IIASA, she held a Fulbright fellowship to investigate the impacts
of regional integration on environmental policy under different macroeconomic
scenarios.
Email:
warner@iiasa.ac.at
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Landis MacKellar, Contributing Scholar
Landis MacKellar is an economist
specializing in economic demography. His research has covered population
and development, population and the environment and, most recently, the
economics of population aging. Since 1998, he has been leader of IIASA's
Social Security Reform Project.
He holds M.A. and Ph.D degrees
from the University of Pennsylvania as well as an M.Sc from the School
of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. Prior to
joining IIASA in 1994, he worked for the International Labour Organization
in Geneva and Africa and was Assistant Professor of Economics at Queens
College of the City University of New York and an economist at Wharton
Econometric Forecasting Associates.
Email: mckellar@iiasa.ac.at
Georg Pflug, Contributing Scholar
Georg Pflug joined the Adaptation
and Optimization Project in January 1990 to work on the optimization of
stochastic systems and computationally intensive methods in simulation
and optimization. He is currently working in the Risk, Uncertainty and
Complexity Project. He studied mathematics and law at the University of
Vienna. He received his master's degree in 1974, his doctorate in mathematics
and statistics in 1975, and his "Habilitation" in 1981. From 1982 to 1988,
he was Professor for probability and statistics at the University of Gießen,
Germany. In 1985 he was Guest Professor at Michigan State University,
USA. He took on a Professorship at the University of Vienna, Department
of Statistics and Computer Science in 1988. He has held guest professorships
at the University of California at Davis, USA (1993), the Université
de Rennes, France (1994), and Technion-Israel (Institute of Technology),
Haifa, Israel.
Email: pflug@iiasa.ac.at
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