Roberto Guidotti is Assistant Vice President of Catastrophe Risk Management at Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, focusing on parametric risk transfer. He joined the Guy Carpenter team in November 2018. He is currently involved in the research and development of algorithms for the optimal design of parametric solutions designed to reduce the protection gap in natural hazard prone areas, in supporting the (re)insurance brokerage business, and in communicating technical solutions with internal and external audiences. His research interests encompass risk, reliability, and resilience of interdependent urban infrastructure subject to extreme loading events; analytical and quantitative modeling toward impact forecasting and informed decision making in the catastrophe modeling area; and earthquake engineering and seismology. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (2018), and a Ph.D. in Structural, Seismic, and Geotechnical Engineering from the Milan Technical University (Politecnico di Milano), Italy (2012).