About Ivelin Zvezdov

Ivelin Zvezdov is a financial and insurance economist by academic training with some further depth of knowledge in international relations and political philosophy. He has master’s degrees in economics and international relations from the Universities of St. Andrews and Oxford. He works on natural and man-made catastrophe modeling and product development for the (re)insurance industry. His professional career of twenty-five years has developed in the financial and insurance industries with leadership roles in mathematical modeling and management for corporate, extreme, and catastrophic risks. He does research and writes on catastrophic risk, shocks and disaster, social fragility, and contagion from both the mathematical risk and moral philosophy aspects.