Public hearings - Sydney, Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Inquiry into recent trends in and preparedness for extreme weather events

Public hearings - Sydney, Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Harbour Room 7
Portside Centre
Level 6, 207 Kent Street
Sydney

Time

Witness

11.00 am

Risk Frontiers (Submission 9)
Professor John McAneney, Director
Mr Ryan Crompton, Catastrophe Risk Scientist

11.40 am

Panel:
Insurance Council of Australia (Submission 15)
Mr Karl Sullivan, General Manager-Risk and Disaster Planning Directorate
Mr Alex Sanchez, General Manager-Economics and Taxation
Insurance Australia Group (Submission 144)
Ms Julie Batch, Group General Manager, Reinsurance
Mr George Karagiannakis, Head of Government and Industry Relations
Mr Malcolm Freeman, General Manager, Business Partners, CGU Insurance Ltd

12.20 pm

Floodplain Management Association (Submission 62)
Mr Glenn Evans, Executive Officer

1.00 pm

Lunch

1.40 pm

Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Council (Submission 160)
Mr Tony Press, Chief Executive Officer
Professor Nathan Bindoff, Program Leader, Climate Futures

2.20 pm

National Climate Change Adaption Research Facility (Submission 40) via teleconference
Professor Jean Palutikof, Director

3.00 pm

Adjournment

For further information, contact:

Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

Phone: +61 2 6277 3526
Fax: +61 2 6277 5818
Email: ec.sen@aph.gov.au