Weather is the single most important factor in influencing price volatility, volume fluctuations and revenues for an estimated 80% of global business activity. In effect, weather risk is becoming just as important as interest rate risk and exchange rate risk in its affect on your business revenues and bottom line.

Furthermore disaster hedging by developing nations is set to be a human success story of the 21st century in the weather derivatives arena. Poor countries are actively employing these tools (with the help of aid agencies and multilateral organizations) to protect themselves from drought-induced malaise and to facilitate agricultural insurance to their farmers.

Weather Risk Management brings together a collection of experts on the subject to look at this changing area, the strategies and innovations and features detailed studies on agriculture and energy.

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION
Introduction to Weather Risk Management
Kenny Tang
Oxbridge Weather Capital

Living in Interesting Times - Critical Risks and Risk Management
Scott Foster
Nomad Energy Consulting

SECTION 2: WEATHER RISK MANAGEMENT AND HEDGING STRATEGIES
Evolution of Weather Derivatives and Contract Types
Pablo Triana

The Development of the Weather Derivatives Market in India
Janani Akhilandeswari
Centre for Insurance and Risk Management

Weather Derivatives and Insurance: Critical Legal Distinctions
Andrea Kramer
McDermott Will & Emery

SECTION 3: SECTOR STUDIES IN AGRICULTURE AND ENERGY
Index Insurance for Agriculture in Developing Countries: Moving Beyond Pilots
Erin Bryla and Joanna Syroka
The World Bank; United Nations World Food Programme

Rainfall Insurance in Semi-Arid India: Contract Design, Household Participation and Future Prospects
Xavier Giné, Robert Townsend, James Vickery
The World Bank; MIT Economics Department; Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Preparing for a rainy day: Weather-based financial risk management solutions for the agricultural markets
Sandeep Ramachandran
Swiss Re

Managing combined weather and price risk for the energy industry - hedging considerations
Thomas Kamman
Swiss Re

Managing weather risk in a changing climate – opportunities from the developing science
Matt Huddleston
Met Office

Please note that this table of contents is provisional and is subject to change prior to publication

Kenny Tang is founder and chief executive officer of Oxbridge Capital and Oxbridge Weather Capital, leading experts in the waste, weather, low carbon, clean tech and climate change space. Kenny has postgraduate degrees from Jesus College at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, including a Doctorate in business administration (business strategy) from the Judge Business School. He is the Inaugural Professorial Fellow of The Future Leadership Institute (Wall Street Journal Europe).

Dubbed as Asia’s Al Gore by leading global investment bank Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific and global strategy magazine Strategic Direction, Kenny has written on sustainability, climate change, clean tech, waste and green entrepreneurship for the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. He is on the board of governors at the University of East London and also a visiting fellow/adjunct professor teaching on the world’s first MBA in strategic carbon management at the Norwich Business School (University of East Anglia).

He sits on the Global Judging Panel of the Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards and the Asian Wall Street Journal’s Asian Innovation Awards. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder from the CFA Institute.