Stephen Cusack - Founder

NatCat Modeller 

Stephen started postgraduate life doing part-time research measuring wind gusts at a freezing roadside embankment to help fund his Ph.D. research into the low profile but very interesting subject of climate change. After being awarded a Ph.D. for developing a more efficient model of radiative forcing of the climate, he joined the Met Office, and over the course of the next 13 years contributed to the development of the full range of weather and climate models, from short-range UK all the way up to climate change models.

Stephen joined Risk Management Solutions and developed their climate peril models for the majority of the next 12.5 years. He was a leader on how to assimilate a wide variety of observations and improve the realism of hazard and loss models, for model calibration and validation. He worked and published on many research topics including multidecadal climate variability, clustering, social inflation and urban forcing of climate, and gained exposure to many other NatCat models at RMS.

Recently, Stephen has worked more closely with the insurance industry on measuring the impacts of climate change on total NatCat exposure. He spent five months at Lloyds Banking Group Insurance designing and implementing methods for CBES, and another five months contracting with SCOR Risk Group. These experiences led to the development of the CC Tool, which he hopes will endure as much as his previous models, such as his Ph.D. work, a mainstay of climate change radiative calculations for the past 25 years.

Charlie Cusack

Software Developer

Charlie is a computing graduate with experience in a wide array of technology topics such as scripting, software development, web development and QGIS. His broad interest in technology includes building the computers that we work on. After graduating from university, Charlie spent 2 years teaching in Shenzhen, China and is now proficient in Mandarin Chinese thus allowing him to communicate with clients in China.