Lloyd’s is launching “Futureset,” a new global platform and community dedicated to driving greater societal and economic resilience to the world’s most challenging risks.

The insurance and reinsurance marketplace developed its platform to respond to the large and complex challenges of systemic risks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Lloyd’s noted that the pandemic has highlighted gaps in the knowledge, understanding and mitigation of systemic and “black swan” risks with potential impacts that are materializing and evolving at a rapid pace.

These risks have highlighted the urgent need to begin a conversation with customers, insurers and government, which Futureset aims to achieve by bringing together diverse perspectives, along with cutting-edge risk insight, intelligence and cross-industry dialogue on the most complex and fast-changing risks faced by communities, businesses and countries. The focus of the platform is to help build greater societal understanding and collaboration to find solutions and support greater preparedness, protection and resilience to the growing and interconnected risks that customers face, continued the statement from Lloyd’s.

Throughout 2021, Futureset will explore lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic as well as examine the growing and global risks brought about by climate change. Established as an openly accessible platform, Futureset will convene global experts and partner with world class research organizations, creating new and pioneering insights to drive sustainable solutions to current and future threats around the world.

Futureset launches with a six-part Systemic Risk Masterclass series, developed in partnership with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) and Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA). The masterclass series will bring together experts across industry, academia and government to help insurance and risk professionals develop their knowledge and expertise in systemic risk.

The first Masterclass takes place on Feb. 10, with John Neal, CEO of Lloyd’s, leading an interactive panel discussion focused on how governments and the insurance industry can partner more effectively to protect society and the economy against systemic risks. Panellists include John Doyle, president and CEO of Marsh, Paula Jarzabkowski, professor of Strategic Management at the University of London’s Business School, and Patrick Sterling, RIMS vice president and senior director of Legendary People and Risk at Texas Roadhouse.

As part of Futureset, later this month Lloyd’s will also be launching “An Expert’s Take,” a video series hosted by Anne McElvoy from The Economist. The video series will bring together industry leaders from a variety of sectors to explore the specific challenges associated with systemic risk. Upcoming guests will include Robert Hannigan, a leading authority on cyber security and former director of the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, and Ann Pettifor, political economist and author of “The Case for the Green New Deal.”

Source: Lloyd’s

*A version of this story ran previously in our sister publication Insurance Journal.