Company: American International Group (AIG)
Location: London
Job Description:
Overview
As Catastrophe Research Analyst at AIG, you will lead reviews and development of catastrophe risk models for material peril regions, collaborating with global teams and external vendors. You will help shape AIG’s internal risk view for natural perils and climate change impacts, driving analytics, model validation, and knowledge-sharing across risk, actuarial, underwriting, and ERM. This role offers the chance to influence risk strategy and model upgrades in a global insurance context.
Pay / Benefits
- bonus eligibility
- competitive benefits
- Total Rewards Program
- in-office collaboration culture
Responsibilities
- Lead innovative catastrophe risk research focused on material peril regions
- Develop standardized best practices and risk-view strategies
- Oversee end-to-end catastrophe model evaluation, including implementing risk views, validating vendor models, and proposing adjustments
- Implement model changes and upgrades across the organization
- Support assessment of climate change impacts on perils and engage with stakeholders
- Collaborate with Risk Engineering, Actuarial, Underwriting, and ERM to share insights
- Partner with Data Office on strategic data initiatives and vendor/data provider assessments
Key requirements
- PhD or Master’s degree in Climate Science, Natural Hazards, Applied Statistics, or related subject
- 3+ years in catastrophe research or model development
- Strong understanding of catastrophe modelling science and hands-on model review/validation experience
- Knowledge of catastrophe models and their regional strengths/weaknesses
- Understanding of climate change impacts on insurance; interest in analytics leadership
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Strong programming skills in R, Python, and SQL
- Experience with or familiarity of RMS is preferred
- communication
- presentation
- interpersonal skills
- R
- Python
- SQL
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Posted: November 1st, 2026