Beyond Insurance: Building Resilience Via Cross-Sector Collaboration

Nancy Watkins and Francis Bouchard join ITL Editor-in-Chief Paul Carroll to explore how the insurance industry needs to expand its conversation about resilience beyond traditional boundaries.

Beyond Insurance: Building Resilience Via Cross-Sector Collaboration

Nancy Watkins and Francis Bouchard join ITL Editor-in-Chief Paul Carroll to explore how the insurance industry needs to expand its conversation about resilience beyond traditional boundaries. The discussion will focus on engaging non-insurance stakeholders—including architects, city planners, and other key decision-makers—and highlight practical work being done in wildfire risk management. This is an opportunity to discuss actionable approaches to resilience that don't require massive investment but can deliver significant impact.

What You'll Learn:

· How to expand resilience conversations beyond insurance to include the other key stakeholders

· The opportunities becoming available through a Data Commons initiative on the wildland-urban interface

· Cost-effective resilience strategies

· The evolving role of insurance in global adaptation and resilience efforts

Date: December 3, 2025

Time: 1:00 pm EST

About the Speakers

Paul Carroll

Paul Carroll is the editor-in-chief of Insurance Thought Leadership.

He is also co-author of A Brief History of a Perfect Future: Inventing the Future We Can Proudly Leave Our Kids by 2050 and Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn From the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years and the author of a best-seller on IBM, published in 1993.

Carroll spent 17 years at the Wall Street Journal as an editor and reporter; he was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize. He later was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.

Nancy Watkins, FCAS, MAAA

Nancy Watkins is a principal and consulting actuary with Milliman in San Francisco. At the forefront of innovation in catastrophic risk, Nancy and her team serve insurers, trade groups, regulators, community/government entities and NGOs. Currently she is supporting the CA Department of Insurance for the implementation of its Sustainable Insurance Strategy.

Widely known as a thought leader in property insurance availability and affordability, Nancy leads the global Milliman Climate Resilience Initiative and serves on the Insurance for Good - Private Market Insights Advisory Group. She has served on the California Office of the State Fire Marshal Risk Modeling Advisory Workgroup andthe U.S. Treasury Financial Stability Oversight Council’s Climate-related Financial Risk Advisory Committee.

Francis Bouchard

Francis Bouchard is an accomplished global public affairs professional who serves an adviser, catalyst and contributor to a series of climate resilience and insurance initiatives.