Melody He is a Lead Associate in the Alternative Risk Transfer team at Willis Towers Watson, based in Hong Kong. She has worked on projects across both private and public sectors, covering a wide range of industries and risk types. Melody specializes in consulting, structuring, and executing parametric (re)insurance placements for clients throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Albrecht Weerts is an expert on data model integration and hydrological forecasting at Deltares. He has been leading research and development projects on data assimilation techniques for improving flood forecasting system. He is also a Professor of Hydrologic Predictability at Wageningen University, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group.

Hisaki Eito is the head of the Tokyo Typhoon Center, Japan Meteorological Agency, an agency of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. It is charged with gathering and providing results for the public in Japan that are obtained from data based on daily scientific observation and research into natural phenomena in the fields of meteorology, hydrology, seismology and volcanology, among other related scientific fields.