Ernst Rauch
Chief Climate and Geo Scientist, Munich RE
In June 1988, Ernst Rauch joined Munich Re Munich.
Today, Ernst is Munich Re’s Chief Climate and Geo Scientist with a professional background in geophysics and meteorology. He is responsible for the strategic positioning of Munich Re with respect to climate and natural catastrophes related topics, where his external stakeholders range from insurance clients to scientific organizations and think-tanks to investors, political representatives and the media and broader public. His expertise in the climate domain includes risk management solutions for climate and natural catastrophes risk and energy transition related technologies (renewable energies, energy storage systems).
Ernst is also Munich Re’s Global Head Climate and Public Sector Business Development. In this capacity he is responsible for the acquisition of new clients in the public and supranational domain with focus on governments, sub-governmental organizations and multilateral development banks. Furthermore, Ernst represents Munich Re in several UN-COP side-events, to raise awareness for the importance of insurance solutions in the natural catastrophe and climate change context and to reduce the so-called insurance gap.
Ernst represents Munich Re in a number of insurance think-tanks and Public-Private-Partnership organizations like the Geneva Association and the Insurance Development Forum (IDF). He is leading Munich Re’s partnership with the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and has memberships with several national and international scientific associations.
Ernst is a member of the Senior Executive Management of Munich Re in Munich.