Cathy Ansell

Executive Director, Climate, Nature & Social at JPMorgan Chase & Co

Speaker

Cathy Ansell previously worked in the London natural catastrophe reinsurance market at a Reinsurer, Broker and also as lead of the Event Response model development team at Moody’s RMS . Cathy then worked at the World Bank for 3 years as a Financial Sector Specialist in the Crisis and Disaster Risk Finance team as Trust Fund Manager of the UK FCDO funded Disaster Protection Programme where she was technical advisor to Ministry of Finance led projects in Africa, Southeast Asia, Pacific, and the Caribbean supporting climate finance initiatives.

During her time at the World Bank Cathy was also a contributing author of the NGFS Climate Scenarios for central banks and supervisors published in June 2021 as a member of the physical scenario working group. She joined JP Morgan Chase in July 2021 as Physical Risk and Modelling team lead in the Climate Risk Team and was appointed to the FSOC Climate-related Financial Risk Advisory Committee (CFRAC).