Selected Work

Selected engagements

Six cases across sovereign and corporate practice. Each follows the same structure — context, instrument, role, outcome — because that is how the decision was actually made.

GovernmentMexico·Ministry of Finance (SHCP) / World Bank

Mexico Sovereign Catastrophe Bonds

Context: Mexico needed liquidity within weeks of a major earthquake or hurricane, without waiting for budget reallocation or emergency borrowing.
Instrument: Parametric catastrophe bond triggered by earthquake magnitude and hurricane pressure thresholds. The 2006 transaction seeded the World Bank’s MultiCat Program; the 2009 issuance was the first placed under it.
Role: Led the technical design from the Government of Mexico in 2006; joined the World Bank team for the 2009 issuance under the MultiCat Program.
Outcome: First sovereign cat bond issued by a developing economy. Template reused by subsequent sovereign issuers in Latin America and the Pacific.

GovernmentPacific·UNDP / Government of Vanuatu

Vanuatu National Disaster Financing Strategy

Context: A small island state facing cyclone, earthquake and volcanic risk with limited fiscal space and heavy donor dependence after each event.
Instrument: Risk-layered national strategy combining contingency reserves, contingent credit and regional parametric cover.
Role: Lead advisor on diagnostics, instrument sequencing and the governance framework for the national disaster fund.
Outcome: Strategy adopted as the financing backbone of the national disaster risk management framework.

GovernmentCaribbean·World Bank

Caribbean CCRIF Parametric Evaluation

Context: Member governments questioned whether the regional parametric facility was paying out when losses actually occurred.
Instrument: Independent evaluation of basis risk, trigger design and payout history across the facility.
Role: Technical lead on the quantitative assessment and recommendations.
Outcome: Findings informed trigger redesign and member-country communication on basis risk.

GovernmentEast Africa·World Bank / Government of Mozambique

Mozambique Disaster Management Fund

Context: Recurrent flooding and cyclones required a standing financing mechanism rather than ad-hoc appeals.
Instrument: National disaster fund with defined eligibility, replenishment rules and disbursement protocols.
Role: Design of fund architecture, governance and operating rules.
Outcome: First dedicated disaster fund in East Africa.

CorporateLatin America·Latin America's largest telecommunications operator

Critical Infrastructure Climate Risk

Context: A portfolio of roughly 25,000 assets valued near USD 20 billion, with no consistent view of physical climate exposure.
Instrument: Asset-level multi-hazard assessment producing average annual loss and exceedance curves under climate scenarios.
Role: Lead modeller and author of the executive risk report.
Outcome: Prioritised adaptation portfolio and a catastrophe reinsurance premium impact analysis used in renewal negotiations.

CorporateLatin America / Canada·Banks and insurers (confidential)

Climate Risk for Financial Institutions

Context: Regulators and investors expected scenario-based physical risk disclosure; internal teams lacked the models.
Instrument: Portfolio climate risk under RCP scenarios, mapped to TCFD and IFRS S2 disclosure requirements.
Role: Design of the assessment methodology and board-level reporting.
Outcome: Disclosure-grade scenario analysis and a repeatable internal process.

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