Laura Verderame

Assistant Vice President, Catastrophe Risk Management, Guy Carpenter

Laura (Lemke) Verderame is Assistant Vice President of Catastrophe Risk Management at Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, focusing on parametric risk transfer. She joined the Guy Carpenter team in July 2021 and is based in New York. She is currently involved in the research and development of natural hazards parametric solutions to support the (re)insurance brokerage business. Laura is trained as a coastal engineer and has been involved in projects designed to study the hazards induced by tropical and extratropical cyclones and the risk they pose to coastal communities. She holds a Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, US.