I am Chris, currently working as a Geospatial Data Engineer for Allianz Insurance near London. My day job involves integrating geospatial data of various kinds such as natural catastrophe, locational asset, and government data to construct data pipelines for our data scientists, underwriters, risks and actuary teams. I am especially interested in talking to people in the insurance industry on how we can take nat cat, political risk and climate insurance data beyond and towards longer-term (and neglected by industry) EA aligned risks such as various Global Catastrophic Risks and any intersection thereof.
I have done research work previously on GCR focusing in nuclear resilience and neglected tipping points in GCR with the Odyssean Institute. As well as computer vision remote sensing based research for disaster management in refugee camps for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. I used to work in a major ESG ratings companies and could talk about the pros, cons, and limitations, but my knowledge is probably out-of-date, and you would be better finding someone more relevant.
I am interested in talking to people overall in general about systemic risks, system modelling, GCR (especially infrastructure and logistics), poverty reduction, and geospatial data. Especially how key private industries such as financial services and insurance and contribute towards GCR risk reduction.
Food stockpiling already exist as mitigation strategy in many countries and international aid organisation (FAO, UNHCR etc.). Not just to tackle short-term non nuclear winter (< 3+ years) scale for GCR. The goal is not only to feed population, but also to stabilise food price in such events. Stabilisation of food price is important to prevent local and global famines, especially in an event where communication and industrial infrastructure collapse.
The reason GCR focused orgs are focused on the production scalability and deploy-ability of resilient food is partly to ensure adequate nutrition and calorie requirement, but this could also stabilise food price for diminishing food stock in such an event.
Thus, food price movement is often a catalyst for instabilities in food insecure regions and structurally unstable regions (e.g. First and Second Arab Spring).
Freezing food and the âcold-chainâ distribution of require access to stable energy supply, which fuel inequality and poverty in many unstable regions donât have access to, we could postulate this would also happen in many GCR scenarios. Particularly in higher-likelihood human caused GCR (war --> nuclear exchanges) food and fuel infrastructure is often weaponise as political tokens, rendering stockpile and transportation infrastructures around such supply chains vulnerable to attack.
Corentin wrote an excellent yet underappreciated 3-part long posts on our reliance on fossil-fuel which maybe of interest to you , part 3, in particular discussed under-researched areas, which are relevant to the topic.