Topic: PACIFIC NORTHWEST CLIMATE SIGNALS: An Actuary’s insights regarding
Future Climate Risks and the “Inflation Reduction Act”                                                                        Guest speaker:  Steve Kolk

Businesss Meeting 11:30am to 12:00pm       

Speaker: 12:00pm to 1:30pm

The League of Women Voters of Mason County is hosting a Zoom webinar on 10/18,
from noon-1:30 PM Pacific. The framework is a lunch and learn for league
members, business leaders, realtors, elected officials, etc.  The League is hoping to
build awareness of the possible risks for folks in our area, based on the
actuarial science data that the American Academy of Actuaries has been accumulating
for years.
The American Academy of Actuaries has long been the most reliable and credible
source of objective, independent, and nonpartisan information about actuarial matters
that can and do affect public policy decisions in the United States. The Academy
released the Actuaries Climate Risk Index (ACRI) to provide that objective and
independent analysis to assist in answering the question: Are the extreme weather
conditions that result from a changing climate producing increased property losses?

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Steve Kolk is president of Kolkulations, LLC, a climate risk consulting firm that solves property
catastrophe risk problems collaborating with insurers, government agencies, economists, and scientiststo source pertinent data, build risk models, and employ geospatial technology intelligently. Steve is anindustry thought-leader and one of the nation’s foremost actuarial experts in climate change. He hasspoken to audiences in over half the States of the USA and to audiences in many other countries.
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Presently Steve chairs the CAS Climate Change Committee and is active on the Climate Index WorkGroup, which constructed the first of-its-kind Actuaries Climate Index in collaboration with the Society of Actuaries, the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and the American Academy of Actuaries. Launched in 2016, the public index reveals trends of climate extremes on a quarterly basis. He is also vice chair of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Extreme Events and Property Lines Committee that prepared a Flood Monograph to assist the U.S. Congress with the National Flood Insurance Program. Steve is a Property/Casualty actuary with over forty years of experience working for a variety of companies gained in Michigan, Connecticut, Minnesota, Washington, Wisconsin, and Florida with his wife Trudi and their boys Jason and Jackford. This career journey gave him the privilege of serving as chief actuary for three companies including a half dozen years at Grange Insurance Group in Seattle. He is a Michigan native who graduated from Calvin University with a Bachelor of Arts with honors in mathematics.

If you would like to attend, please email lwvmasoncountywa.gmail.com.