Background on pandemics: important historic pandemics (the Black Death or the Plague of Justinian) have been (arguably) worse than COVID. Pandemics today: Engineered v natural; Deliberate v accidental

How can we learn from the burgeoning field of “existential risks”? Which pandemics are most likely to lead to human extinction? How does this help model pandemic risk on an insurance balance sheet?

What can we as actuaries do?

Speaker: Sanjay Joshi, Hymans Robertson