IRB opens Center for Risk and Resilience Studies
In partnership with IMPA, the CBERR was launched at Maravalley Port on Tuesday (3)
O IRB(Re) and IMPA launched, on Tuesday (3), the Brazilian Center for Risk and Resilience Studies (CBERR)The center will be located in Porto Maravalley, a technology hub run by Rio de Janeiro City Hall. Next to the IMPA Tech campus, the Center will bring together research and development initiatives with an emphasis on climate risks, aimed at the insurance and reinsurance sector in Brazil.
The main objective of the CBERR is to transform scientific production into practical strategies for the insurance market, capable of contributing to building a more resilient future in the face of the complexity of current risks, such as climate change and environmental catastrophes.
“This partnership with the IRB represents yet another social return for IMPA, placing the institution’s renowned mathematical expertise at the service of solving problems for Brazilian society,” said IMPA’s director-general, Marcelo Viana. The Institute will contribute to the development of new technologies, data analysis, advanced methods and artificial intelligence (AI).
CBERR’s actions include state-of-the-art risk modeling, analysis and AI; training future risk management specialists for a volatile world; creating new solutions and closing protection gaps for the insurance and reinsurance market; and modeling climate and systemic risks for the sector and society in general.
The CEO of IRB(Re), Marcos Falcão, highlighted the strategic location of the new room: “We put this Center in the right place because on the other side of the hall there are many mathematicians who want a purpose. That’s why we came here, we want to bring purpose to these young people.”
In the future, the idea is that students from the Bachelor of Mathematics in Technology and Innovation will also be able to interact with the space. “We want to bring in trainees and run an insurance course for the undergraduate mathematicians at IMPA Tech. Not just to train qualified labor, but to create an insurance consumer market to protect Brazil’s GDP,” said IRB(Re)’s Director of Internal Controls, Risks and Compliance, Eduarda La Rocque.
Led by IRB(P&D) – an area of IRB(Re) dedicated to research and development – the initiative represents an advance in the articulation between the insurance sector, academia, public authorities and partner institutions, with a focus on the production of knowledge, innovation and the development of solutions for risk management and resilience.
The Center will function as a Latin American hub of the Danish model of the European Centre for Risk and Resilience Studies (ECRRS), in collaboration with the University of Southern Denmark. In addition to IMPA, the partnership includes PUC-Rio, UnB (University of Brasília) and FGV (Getulio Vargas Foundation). The expectation is to expand the scope of partnerships over time.
Among the center’s missions is to strengthen regulatory, underwriting, pricing, claims management and capital strategies, contributing to a more proactive, adaptable and resilient insurance market. The Center’s governance will be collective and transparent, structured around a Steering Committee and thematic working groups.
The launch was attended by Rio de Janeiro’s municipal secretary for science, technology and innovation, Tatiana Roque; Susep’s director, Cesar Neves; CNSeg’s sustainability director, Claudia Prates; Cemaden’s general coordinator for research and development, José Marengo; FGV’s research and development leader, Goret Paulo; PUC-Rio’s partnerships and innovation coordinator, Gustavo Robichez; IRB(RE)’s chairman of the board, Maurício Quintella; and R&D superintendent, Reinaldo Marques.
