Eireann Leverett
Founder of Concinnity Risks and Senior Risk Researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies eireann. leverett @ cantab. net
Eireann has studied psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and computer security at various times in his life. He holds a BEng from Edinburgh Univesity and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in Advanced Computer Science. He still enjoys punting at Darwin College when he has the time. At the Centre for Risk Studies his research focuses upon technological disasters and the economic impacts of computer security failures or accidents. He has experience of compromising the security of organisations, and assisting them to improve their security postures through a variety of short and long term methods. He is interested in computer security at scale, security economics, systems security, incident response, critical infrastructure protection, safety, firmware signing, exploit markets, vulnerability management, quality assurance, indicators of compromise, modelling, networks, risk, visualisations, and zero knowledge proofs. He is a frequent public speaker on these subjects.
Hala Abinader Long
Head of Energy EMEA, Insurance, XL Catlin Hala. Long @ xlcatlin. com
Hala Abinader Long has more than 15 years of commercial underwriting experience, mainly in the Energy and Construction sector. She started her insurance career in the World Source Property & Energy Risk Management Division of AIG Group in New York. She joined Liberty International Underwriters in New York as Senior Underwriter Construction & Energy in 2001 and later held various senior underwriting and management positions at Liberty Mutual and Zurich in London. In 2014 she joined XL Catlin and is now based in Dubai. Hala is responsible for all Energy insurance activities in the EMEA region. She is a graduate of Temple University, Fox School of Business & Management and holds a BA degree in Risk Management & Insurance.
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