Rowan Douglas is CEO Capital, Science & Policy Practice at Willis Group and Chairman of the Willis Research Network. Willis is a global risk advisor, insurance and reinsurance broker of approximately 20,000 personnel operating in around 100 countries. Previously Rowan served on the board of Willis Re as CEO Global Analytics. He also sits on the Executive Committee of the International Insurance Society, New York. Rowan is a member of the Prime Minister's Council for Science & Technology in the UK and of the Royal Society's Working Group on Resilience to Extreme Weather. He has held appointments for the World Bank and UN, chairing the private sector input for the renewal of the UN Hyogo Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction in March 2015 and serving as Patron of the World Bank GFDRR Understanding Risk Conference, London 2014. Rowan read geography at Durham (BA) and Bristol (MPhil) universities before entering Lloyd’s are a reinsurance underwriter in 1992. He founded the risk information company WIRE Limited in 1994 which he sold to Willis Group in 2000. In 2014 he received the Kenneth R Black Distinguished Service Award from the International Insurance Society.