Programme

10:00 Welcome and introduction

  • Wauthier Robyns, rapporteur of the EESC opinion on "Towards a European system of natural disaster risk management"

10:10 Panel 1 – institutional stakeholders

Moderation by Rudy De Leeuw, president of the study group on "Towards a European system of natural disaster risk management"

  • Elena Briones Alonso, Senior researcher, Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, EM-DAT
  • Tilman Lueder, Head of Unit Insurance and Pensions, DG FISMA
  • Marie Scholer Mendez, Senior expert on Policy Sustainable Finance, EIOPA
  • Francisco Espejo Gil, Deputy Director of Studies and International Relations Spanish Insurance Compensation Consortium
  • Monika Petrova, Senior Political Advisor, lead of the project ‘Disaster financial risk sharing in South East Europe’

Q&A and debate 

11:20 Panel 2 – civil society stakeholders

Moderationby Wauthier Robyns, rapporteur of the EESC opinion

  • Enrico Somaglia, Secretary-General, European Federation of Food, Agriculture  and Tourism trade unions (EFFAT)
  • Enrique Flores Schaefer, Senior vice-president, Marsh Re 
  • Frank Van Steen, Director of Risk Management, Ethias
  • Mary Long-Dhonau OBE, Founder of the citizens’ initiative Mary Flood

12:50 Takeaways and end of the public debate

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