Swenja Surminski

Managing Director Climate and Sustainability, Marsh
Knowledgeable on both the physical impacts and the net-zero transition agenda, Swenja Surminski is a
leading international expert on climate change, resilience and disaster risk management with a special
focus on risk financing, insurance and risk governance in a broader sustainability context.

Swenja currently chairs the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative and is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

She has held several advisory roles with corporates, regulatory authorities and governments, including as Visiting Academic at the Bank of England, and with insurers working on climate stress testing and scenario analysis. She was also a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and has led the work on business and industry for the UK's Climate Change Risk Assessment. In 2022, Swenja was
appointed by the UK Government to the UK Committee on Climate Change – serving on the adaptation
committee and since 2024 on both mitigation and adaptation committees.