Christopher Au

Christopher is the Director of WTW’s Asia-Pacific Climate Risk Centre, which focuses on climate risk quantification and management.

Based in Singapore, the Centre works with support corporates, financial institutions, insurers, and governments to understand, quantify and build resilience against climate risks. It focuses on physical and transition climate risk assessment and quantification, and innovative forms of risk management and financing. 
Christopher is also responsible for strategy and solution development for the Climate Practice globally.

This follows his role in building and commercialising WTW’s disaster risk financing practice, which provides advisory and risk transfer product design services to public sector clients. 
Christopher has also spent time in East Africa, launching an agricultural parametric insurance programme supported by the World Bank and the World Food Programme.

Christopher joined WTW in 2018. He holds a PhD in Insurance Regulation and Policy, and an MSc in Environmental Policy from Imperial College London, and a BA in Geography from University College London. He also holds a Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management.