Francisco Espejo, Deputy Director for Studies and International Relations, Consorcio de Compensaciòn de Seguros

02/18/2016

Francisco Espejo-Gil studied Physics and Geography and has a Master’s degree in Physical Geography. He joined the Spanish Weather Service (AEMET) in 1993 and worked as a weather forecaster for 12 years. Later, he joined the Research and Development Division devoted to three main areas: climatology, synoptic climatology and snow science. He was an active part of the teams studying climate trends with environmental application (drought, evapotranspiration, availability of water resources), the synoptic climatology of severe weather (deep convection, hail and tornadoes) and of hydrometeorological processes (floods) and was very much involved with the snow and mountain meteorology observing network in the Pyrenees, focused in assessing and forecasting the snow avalanche hazard.

Early 2011 he joined the International Relations Division of AEMET, where he was in charge of the relations with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the coordination of AEMET’s international cooperation programs (mainly in Latin America, Africa and the Greater Mediterranean Basin). In this stage he was part of the managing group of the Global Water Partnership/World Meteorological Organization Integrated Drought Management Programme, was a member of the WMO Task Team on the Social and Economic Benefits of Meteorology, participated in the implementation of the Global Framework for Climate Services and chaired the WMO Informal Planning Meeting of the Voluntary Cooperation Programme.

Mr. Espejo-Gil  joined the Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros (CCS) in July 2015. CCS is the Spanish public insurer that, among other things, functions as a complementary tool for the whole Spanish Insurance market, manages the Extraordinary Risk Scheme, providing binding cover to the Spanish policyholders against natural (flood, strong wind, earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption…) and man-made (terrorism…) risks. The Scheme grounds on a public-private partnership. At the CCS, Francisco works as a Senior Expert within the Sub-Directorate for Studies and International Relations, and is mainly devoted to linking and promoting risk knowledge from scientific, technical and academic institutions to the activities and strategy (at a national and international level) of the CCS. Francisco also co-operates with the publishing activities of CCS, being part of the Editorial Board of the Consorseguros Digital Magazine and is involved with the rest of CCS’ publications.

He also takes part in the meetings and working groups of the World Forum of Catastrophe Programmes, the High-Level Advisory Board on Insurance and Pension Funds of the OECD, the International Forum of Terrorism Risk (re)Insurance Pools (IFTRIP) and those of the European Commission related to Insurance, Natural Catastrophes and Climate Change.