Australian academic tour

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Posted on 15 November 2011

Sydney Dr Luis Lobo-Guerrero (SPIRE/Emerging Securities Unit -RISS) gave a keynote address at the University of Sydney at an interdisciplinary conference on Biosecurity, Resilience and Government. The presentation, which took place on 11 November 2011, drew on the latest moves by the global reinsurance industry to securitize mortality and longevity in the capital markets as a way to hedge against events such as pandemics and extended lives.

The case was used to analyse the global implications of such moves to the livelihoods and lifestyles that insurance is expected to promote and protect. The presentation was based on research conducted as part of a Leverhulme Trust funded project entitled 'Capitalizing Security Through Life Insurance in the UK'.

As part of a Parsons Visiting Fellowship from the same university, Luis engaged in dialogue with researchers in socio-legal studies, history, international relations and political economy to discuss the potential of interdisciplinary and international insurance research. Completing the tour, he gave a Public Lecture at Macquarie University in which he talked about his book trilogy on insurance, security and power.

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