One Concern has appointed Dr. Jeffrey Bohn as Chief Strategy Officer and Craig Fugate as Chief Resilience Officer.
Both appointments will work closely with One Concern’s expert Advisory Board including Alice Hill, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Steve Howard, Chief Sustainability Officer, Temasek International.
Bohn served as Chief Research & Innovation Officer at Swiss Re Institute, where he managed new research activities supporting Swiss Re’s strategy, clients, business development, and technology.
Before he joined Swiss Re to establish the Swiss Re Institute, he served as Chief Science Officer and Head of GX Labs at State Street Global Exchange.
Bohn was previously Head of Portfolio Analytics and Economic Capital at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore and General Manager of the Financial Strategies group at Shinsei Bank in Tokyo, where he supervised the implementation of best-practice risk and capital analytics.
Prior to this appointment, Fugate was One Concern’s Chief Emergency Management Officer and served as FEMA Administrator under President Obama, leading the agency through record-breaking disaster years.
Hill is the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, with prior federal roles in building resilience as a special assistant to President Barack Obama and as a senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council.
Howard currently serves as Chief Sustainability Officer for Temasek, the Singaporean-headquartered investment company, and Co-Chair of the We Mean Business Coalition, a global nonprofit working with the world’s most influential businesses to act on climate change.
He was previously Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) at IKEA Group and served on IKEA’s Executive Group Management from 2011-2017. Prior to joining IKEA, Howard founded The Climate Group, a global non-profit organisation that works with business and government leaders around the world to address climate change.
Ahmad Wani, CEO and Co-Founder, One Concern commented: “In our mission to make disasters less disastrous, we’re thrilled to build our C-suite with foremost experts and leaders in climate risk and emergency management, as we continue our mission to prepare for and mitigate unpredictable climate risk.
“Alice, Jeff, Craig and Steve bring decades of experience across the private and public sectors in addressing climate threats and natural hazards, and this unparalleled experience will help One Concern create a resilience-as-a-service marketplace.
“Our goal is to help industry and government to build resilience and understand the downstream effects a climate event can have on business and society.”
