Parametric insurance delivers rapid earthquake funding to hospitals within hours, enabling critical care continuity when traditional claims processes would delay recovery.
Megan
Linkin
Megan Linkin
Dr. Megan Linkin heads the Parametric Nat Cat team in the Americas for Swiss Re Corporate Solutions.
Prior to re-joining Swiss Re in 2012, she worked as a weather derivative underwriter and catastrophe bond analyst at Allianz Risk Transfer. Between 2008 and 2011, she was an atmospheric perils specialist for the Swiss Re Catastrophe Perils team.
She has given invited presentations to the state of New Jersey, the New York Academy of Science, Rutgers University, and the University of Maryland. She has also testified before Congress about the impacts of climate change on the insurance industry. Her manuscripts have been published in Climatic Change, the Journal of Climate and Weatherwise magazine. Dr. Linkin was named one of Reactions Rising Stars of the insurance industry in 2014 and was named the Underwriter of the Year in 2025 by Reuters' Parametric Insurer.
She received her Ph.D. and masters of science in atmospheric and oceanic science from the University of Maryland and graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers University with a bachelor of science in meteorology and a minor in mathematics. She received her Certified Consulting Meteorologist Seal from the American Meteorological Society in February 2013. She is an active member of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union