Dr. Paul K. Freeman
Consultant

Paul K. Freeman is currently an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He consults frequently with international institutions concerned with natural disasters and developing countries. He has worked with a wide ranging number of institutions including the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. From 1998-2001, he headed a research partnership between International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the World Bank, and the Swiss Reinsurance Company. The partnership examined the impact of natural disasters in developing countries on macroeconomic performance and was headquartered at IIASA, outside of Vienna, Austria. Prior to 1998, Mr. Freeman was the founder and President of ERIC Group, Inc. ERIC was an insurance group specializing in the development of risk transfer strategies for complex risk, especially environmental risk. Mr. Freeman has a PhD in Economics from the University of Vienna, and a Juris Doctoris degree from Harvard University. He was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University (Queen Elizabeth House) and the International Monetary Fund. He has published extensively on the subjects of risk transfer and low probability/high consequence events including both natural hazard and environmental risk.