People Moves: Bennett to Lead Mercury Insurance Climate Science Team

Mercury Insurance, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, appointed Steve Bennett as its senior director of climate and catastrophe science.

In this new position, Bennett will build and lead a team focused on identifying ways Mercury and its policyholders can be more resilient in the face of increasingly severe climate-driven weather events.

Bennett has more than three decades of leadership in extreme weather, climate risk and risk management. He also serves on the adjunct faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches and leads research for the Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation. He was previously co-founder and chief scientist at Demex.