Research Fellow
University of Oxford
Biographical Sketch: Dr Peter Taylor is a researcher concentrating on the area of risk with the Institute for Science and Ethics and the Oxford Martin School. Peter spent 25 years working in the Lloyd's insurance market where he has managed IT and loss modelling departments and led and participated in many projects. He has been a director of insurance broking and underwriting companies and market organisations, and helped to establish the Lighthill Risk Network, a non-profit organisation that brings together the business and scientific communities for their mutual benefit. Peter is also now Technical Director of Oasis Loss Modelling Framework, an industry-led initiative to develop an open source loss modelling framework and software. Peter is also an active consultant in the City of London, with project ranging from underwriting peer reviews to data modelling, and casualty catastrophe software to post-disaster claims management models. Peter has a long-standing interest in all aspects of risk, whether in insurance or in science generally, particularly the practical application of the theory of risk, and the analysis of emerging risks. Peter has a background in the foundations of quantum theory for which he was awarded his D. Phil at Oxford, and in July 2007 organised the Everett@50 Conference at the Philosophy Centre in Oxford. Peter makes regular conference speeches to the insurance industry on the subject of risk.