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The Risky Science Podcast features conversations with scientists, insurers, investors, portfolio managers, and others about the evolving science of predicting and modeling risk across both natural and man-made perils.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Chris Westfall makes the assumptions inside risk models legible by tracing their effects through insurance prices, housing markets, regulation, and capital.
Risky Science Podcast follows the chain from a model's assumptions to the prices, capital decisions, and regulations built around its output. Chris Westfall conducts focused interviews with academics and industry figures, repeatedly asking how uncertainty becomes actionable in…
A hurricane model changes; Chris Westfall asks what moved before you blame the weather for your bill.
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A measured look at pricing AI risk before the data catches up.
Risky Science treats AI as an underwriting problem, with Chris Westphal and Daniel Reddy, co-founder of Exona Labs, weighing how to price a fast-moving technology when the loss history is thin and the data trail is still forming.
Strong insurer profits, weak investor sentiment, and a pricing cycle still being tested.
Risky Science takes a clear look at the divide between insurers posting some of their strongest underwriting profits for years and investor sentiment still sitting at historic lows.
China's weather risk markets, viewed through regulation, liquidity, and insurance depth.
Risky Science Podcast frames a useful discussion of China's weather risk markets, with Chris Westfall pressing Jim Huang on how geopolitics, trade tension, and regulation shape what can realistically take hold.
A clear look at how catastrophe models turn into higher homeowners' premiums.
This episode treats Florida homeowners' insurance as both a climate problem and a financing problem. Chris Westfall and Ben Collier keep the focus on the machinery underneath it all: catastrophe model revisions, expected loss, reinsurance, and the cost of capital.
A sober look at political risk as a frontline business problem.
The episode frames political risk as a day-to-day business issue, with Samuel Wilkin of Willis Towers Watson arguing that Greenland, Ukraine, and Venezuela belong in the same wider headwind facing executives and investors.
A market-level look at how insurance pressure can reshape who gets to buy a home.
The episode treats housing prices as a housing-risk story, with insurance costs adding another layer of strain to an already expensive market. Chris Westfall and Dr.
A sharp look at whether pandemic bonds could deliver the speed, resilience, and transparency they promised.
The Risky Science Podcast shifts from its usual mix of modelers, risk executives, and investors into a tighter examination of how World Bank pandemic bonds turned pandemic risk into a financial instrument. Dr.
A grounded look at weather derivatives as a real market tool.
Risky Science Podcast treats weather derivatives as part of Europe's energy market story and keeps the emphasis on how the market actually works.
Patient conversations on finance, climate, and purpose.
Moody's economist Chris Lafakis discusses a proprietary analysis showing that a severe Category 5 hurricane hitting Southeast Florida would cause worse economic damage to Miami than a 2008-level global financial crisis.
Risky Science Podcast asks whether climate change is making property insurance less available, with host Chris Westfall framing Dave Jones’s Yale Law Journal article as a counterpoint to earlier skepticism about climate catastrophe models.
Risky Science Podcast host Chris Westfall speaks with Jim Huang, founder of Climate Hedge, about opening China’s weather-risk markets from Shanghai.
Chris Westphal interviews Daniel Reddy of Exona Labs about AI risk quantification and insurance.
Chris Westfall (Risky Science Podcast) interviews Tim Boyce, a 25-year financial markets veteran now leading TPI ACAT's European weather derivatives business.
The episode starts with a market split.
The bill is the clue.
Chris Westfall opens by framing risk models as a string of choices.
Chris Westfall opens by noting this episode feels a bit different from the show’s usual mix of modelers, risk industry executives, and investors.
Chris Westfall opens with a question about how insurers, reinsurers, and energy companies handle hurricane and weather risk exposure.
Chris Westfall opens by pushing back on the boilerplate claim that AI will improve efficiency and customer outcomes.
Risky Science Podcast hosts Dr.
Chris Westfall speaks with Dr.
Chris Westfall opens Risky Science Podcast with a discussion of cyber risk in 2026 and asks Morgan Hervé-Mignucci, head of risk modeling at Coalition, what a truly systemic insured cyber loss would look like.
Political risk has moved from background risk into a macro headwind.
An interview with historian Dr.
A conversation about the time horizon problem in climate finance, the gap between credit models and physical risk, and AI-generated climate insights.
An interview with Dr.
A preview of a podcast about the science of predicting and modeling catastrophe risk, discussing AI and climate volatility.
An interview with Dr.
An interview with Dr.
This episode explores how wargaming and combat modeling are used to understand geopolitical conflict risk, featuring an interview with lead wargame designer Dr.
An interview with Dickie Whitaker about the future of catastrophe modeling and the push for open, transparent risk analytics.
An interview with Carmi Margarit from S&P Global Ratings discussing how private credit, drug developments like Ozempic, and AI are reshaping life insurance risk profiles.
A conversation with climate scientist Dr.