Wharton’s Erwann Michel-Kerjan, member of the Scientific Board of the SCOR Foundation for Science, receives the prestigious Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize
December 3, 2014
Dr. Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Executive Director of the Wharton Risk Center and member of the Scientific Board of the SCOR Foundation for Science, was awarded the 2014 Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize in London last week.
The award recognizes his work on 
Evaluating Flood Resilience Strategies for Coastal Megacitie (136.82 KB) (published earlier this year inScience), jointly undertaken with Jeroen Aerts, Wouter Botzen and Hans de Moel (VU University, Amsterdam), Kerry Emanuel (MIT) and Ning Lin (Princeton University).
Evaluating Flood Resilience Strategies for Coastal Megacitie (136.82 KB) (published earlier this year inScience), jointly undertaken with Jeroen Aerts, Wouter Botzen and Hans de Moel (VU University, Amsterdam), Kerry Emanuel (MIT) and Ning Lin (Princeton University).In this work, Dr. Michel-Kerjan and his colleagues performed a full cost-benefit analysis of resilience strategies to protect large coastal megacities against storm surge, today and in the future, and applied their new methodology to New York City. The jury recognized an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to building resilience and the measuring of return on investment, which could potentially be deployed around the world.
Read the story on the Lloyd’s website.
Read the awarded article: http://www.scor.com/en/sgrc/pac/nat-cat/item/3256.html
