Willis Towers Watson introduced the formation of a brand new Disaster Administration unit with the merger of Particular Contingency Dangers (SCR) and the Terror and Political Violence groups, which is able to sit inside its Monetary Options International Line of Enterprise.
Led by Jo Holliday, managing director of SCR, the brand new unit works globally and is devoted to delivering disaster administration and contingency danger administration to a large variety of multinational shoppers.
The Disaster Administration section covers the next areas: particular crime (kidnap & ransom, extortion, hijack, maritime piracy, political evacuation), terrorism, political violence, accident & well being (together with private accident, enterprise journey, contingency, sports activities & leisure) and lively assailant. These propositions proceed to be supported by the Threat Advisory and Disaster Assist providers of the Alert:24 workforce, SCR’s in-house safety danger consultancy and disaster administration apply.
“Disaster Administration and safety danger is acknowledged as an space of concern to a lot of our shoppers at board stage. More and more our shoppers see geopolitical dangers as a macro pattern and this was borne out by a current survey the place over 50% of our shoppers cited safety points and enterprise journey as key danger elements,” commented Alastair Swift, head of International Strains of Enterprise, Threat & Broking.
“By establishing a brand new Disaster Administration enterprise section, we will present a specialist world proposition which crosses all business sectors and geographies,” stated Christophe Meurier, head of Monetary Options International Line of Enterprise. “The brand new mixed workforce will present a extremely specialised and revolutionary proposition which permits us to broaden our shopper demographic and speed up our progress technique on this space.”
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