Megan Linkin Head Parametric Nat Cat NA
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Dr. Megan Linkin heads the Parametric Nat Cat team in the Americas for Swiss Re Corporate Solutions.
She has extensive expertise in parametric insurance and reinsurance solutions. Megan's primary responsibility is the origination, development, structuring and underwriting of parametric insurance solutions that protect corporates and governments against losses incurred due to natural catastrophes or other disruptive events. Before joining Swiss Re Corporate Solutions in 2019, Megan worked for Swiss Re's Public Sector Solutions team, focusing on the development of insurance products to address the unique financial needs of public sector entities, from federal governments to municipal service providers.
Prior to re-joining Swiss Re in 2012, she worked as a weather derivative underwriter and catastrophe bond analyst at Allianz Risk Transfer, structuring weather solutions for the energy, agricultural and tourism industries. Between 2008 and 2011, she was an atmospheric perils specialist for the Swiss Re Catastrophe Perils team.
She is one of Swiss Re’s experts on climate change science, natural catastrophes and the innovative insurance solutions that exist to address them. Megan has given invited presentations to the state of New Jersey, the New York Academy of Science, Rutgers University, and the University of Maryland. She has also testified before Congress about the impacts of climate change on the insurance industry. Her manuscripts have been published in Climatic Change, the Journal of Climate and Weatherwise magazine. Megan was named one of Reactions Rising Stars of the insurance industry in 2014, and was named the Underwriter of the Year in 2025 by Reuters' Parametric Insurer.
Megan received her Ph.D. and Masters of Science in atmospheric and oceanic science from the University of Maryland and graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Science in meteorology and a minor in mathematics. She received her Certified Consulting Meteorologist Seal from the American Meteorological Society in February 2013. She is an active member of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union.