Roman Hohl works as a senior natcat solutions manager in the Swiss Re Risk Data Solutions unit in Zurich, Switzerland. He overlooks technical aspects of different property solutions including CatNet®, catastrophe modelling products and portfolio management tools in EMEA including the domain of customer success.
Before re-joining Swiss Re, Roman has been supporting the (re)insurance industry and the World Bank Group as an independent expert, in developing and reviewing agricultural risk transfer products. Roman served as CEO of Asia Risk Centre, a Singapore-based company that developed agricultural catastrophe models, which are now offered through Risk Management Solutions (RMS). Prior to Asia Risk Centre, as Head of Agriculture Asia Pacific at Swiss Re in Singapore, Roman established the agricultural reinsurance practise in Asia-Pacific.
Roman wrote a technical book on agricultural risk transfer and acted as adjunct professor and deputy director at the Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Roman received a PhD in geosciences (atmosphere) from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and research from his thesis was used to develop HailCalc, the first probabilistic hail loss model for Europe.