Risk Management Solutions

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According to its website Risk Management Solutions was

Founded at Stanford University in 1988, RMS is the world's leading provider of products and services for the quantification and management of catastrophe risks. The company grew rapidly in the 1990s offering technology and services for the management of insurance catastrophe risk associated with natural perils such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and windstorms, as well as products for weather derivatives and enterprise risk management for the P&C insurance industry. Today, RMS is also the leader in risk modeling for man-made disasters associated with acts of terrorism by analyzing the impact of weapons of mass destruction on property and people for many sectors of the insurance industry. The company’s objective is to help clients improve financial performance by using RMS products and services to gain the most complete view of their risk portfolio.



Terrorist Risk Advisors Network

A World-class Team of Advisors

The development of the RMS® U.S. Terrorism Risk Model has involved the input of an extensive team of highly qualified advisors, all of which are authorities in their field of assessing terrorism threats.

Individual Contributors

Individual consultants who contributed to the development of the RMS® U.S. Terrorism Risk Model include the following:

  • Dr. Rohan Gunaratna Head of terrorism research, Institute of Defense & Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Terrorism threat from Al Qaeda and associated groups

  • Dr. Magnus Ranstorp Director, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrew's

Terrorism threats from Islamic militant groups and political violence in Middle East

  • Dr. Bruce Hoffman Vice president for external affairs and director, RAND, Washington, D.C.

Terrorism risk in the U.S.

Homeland Security

Terrorism compensation & liability

Probabilistic modeling and economics of terrorism risk

Loss modeling and the defense and control of terrorism weaponry

  • Dr. Greg Jones Senior defense policy analyst at RAND

Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons in terrorism

  • Dr. George Zanjani Economist in the capital markets function of the research and market analysis group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Economics of terrorism insurance

Emergency response to terrorism incidents

  • Dr. Kim Cragin Associate international policy analyst at RAND

Historical data on terrorism attacks

Terrorism, intelligence, and law enforcement

Defense and security at targets

Systems analysis research

Attack technology, logistical burden, and red teaming analysis

Terrorism intelligence and news analysis

Red teaming, site security, and logistical burden

Weapons systems and unconventional attack operations

Site security

Security survey of New York skyscrapers

Consultant on attack technology (RMS terrorism model 1.0), provider of data and reports (RMS terrorism model 2.0)

  • Dr. William Kastenberg Professor of nuclear engineering, University of California, Berkeley and member of the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Facility Safety for the U.S. DOE

Nuclear power plant safety against terrorist attack

Nuclear power plant operations and security

  • Prof. Lawrence M. Wein Professor of management science at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Bioterrorism attacks and emergency response

Industrial facilities vulnerability

Use of computational fluid dynamics for blast modeling