Airmic Talks
Airmic Talks is hosted by Richard Cutcher, featuring prominent thought leaders within the risk and insurance community.
You can listen to the episodes below, or you can find the podcast series on any podcast platform, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud by searching for Airmic Talks.
- Airmic Talks... Island of Ireland 2025 (2 December 2025)
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This episode of Airmic Talks was recorded in Dublin where we recently held the Airmic Island of Ireland Conference on 19 November. The event had speakers across a range of topics, including geopolitics and captives, tariffs and sustainable building practices, and parametrics and the local insurance market.
In this episode, Richard interviews three of the speakers at the conference.
First, we will hear from Mike Matthews, Commercial Director for EMEA & APAC at Artex Risk Solutions, on recent activity in Ireland’s captive market.
Richard is then joined by Hugh Governey, manager of market development at Lloyd’s, who provides a tribute to Eamonn Egan, a well-known and respected insurance Ieader in Ireland, Lloyd’s country manager for Ireland since 2008 and a close friend of Airmic’s. Eamonn sadly passed away in June this year, and is missed greatly by the team at Airmic.
And last but not least, we hear from Robert Tyrell, General Manager at Campion insurance brokers, on the SME market for insurance and priorities for Irish small to medium sized businesses.
- Airmic Talks in Edinburgh: Climate with WTW's Peter Carter (3 June 2024)
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Richard welcomes Peter Carter, Head of WTW’s Climate Practice as well as Head of Captive & Insurance Management Solutions at the broker, onto the podcast.
In a 15 minute discussion, Peter explains how the broker is addressing climate challenges for its clients, the technology that is supporting ever more sophisticated data and analytical tools and the value of insurance in relation to climate developments.
- Airmic Talks in Edinburgh: Cyber with Marsh McLennan's Scott Stransky (3 June 2024)
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In this episode Richard is joined by Scott Stransky, Head of the Marsh McLennan Cyber Risk Intelligence Center. Scott shares his insight on the kind of data and modelling that is valuable to understanding and quantifying cyber exposures.
Richard and Scott also discuss what a catastrophic cyber loss would look be the commercial market and how the response may play out.
- Airmic Talks in Edinburgh: Geopolitics with WTW's Sam Wilkin (3 June 2024)
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In this episode Richard is joined by Sam Wilkin, director of political risk analytics at WTW. Sam shares his insight and perspective of the geopolitical landscape at a particularly volatile time.
Sam and WTW worked closely with Airmic on its Political risk in 2024: The year of elections publication that was released at the conference.
- Airmic Talks ESG: COP27 with Swenja Surminski (14 February 2023)
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Richard is joined by Swenja Surminski, Managing Director for Climate and Sustainability at Marsh McLennan, as she reports back on the progress, agreements and implications of COP27, held in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, in November 2022. - Airmic Talks ESG: Risk engineering sustainability and resilience (31 October 2022)
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Welcome to episode five of Airmic Talks ESG, where Richard is joined by Chris Hickin, Vice President and Operations Engineering Manager at FM Global, who discusses how risk engineering efforts to mitigate climate events can also compliment broader resilience and sustainability initiatives, as well as contributing to reporting requirements. - Airmic Talks ESG: Operationalising ESG initiatives with Control Risks' Emma Arnold (21 August 2022)
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Our guest in this episode is Emma Arnold, a Director based in London, leading Control Risks’ environmental practice for EMEA, which forms part of its wider global ESG consulting team. Emma has a strong focus on risk and governance concerning operationalising an ESG vision that has been set out by the board or senior leadership of corporations. - Airmic Talks ESG: Simon Edwards, Technical Parametric Underwriter at Generali (25 July 2022)
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In our third episode, you are going to hear from Simon Edwards, Technical Parametric Underwriter at Generali Global Corporate & Commercial, with him focusing on how ESG principles can begin to be integrated into a corporate strategy, the role for the commercial market and where he is seeing parametric policies, specifically, have an impact. - Airmic Talks ESG: Ciarán Healy, Aon Captive & Insurance Management (1 June 2022)
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In episode two of the series, Richard is joined by Ciarán Healy, Director of Client Solutions – EMEA at Aon Captive & Insurance Managers, to discuss how captive insurance companies can play a role in supporting their parent group's own ESG betterment activities. - Airmic Talks ESG: Sean McGovern, CEO for UK & Lloyd's at AXA XL (26 April 2022)
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In our first episode, Richard is joined by Sean McGovern, CEO for the UK and Lloyd’s at AXA XL. Sean has shown himself to be particularly passionate about the ESG topic and the role insurers will have to play in supporting the transition of clients. Sean goes on to discuss how AXA XL are integrating ESG thinking into its own operational and underwriting strategies.