GENERAL SESSION: Solving for Insurance Challenges

Kathleen Dufraine

Managing Director, Insurance Operations Executive & Head of the Corporate Flood Program, JP Morgan Chase

Kathleen Dufraine serves as Managing Director of the Insurance Center of Excellence and Head of the Corporate Flood Program at JPMorgan Chase. With over 35 years of experience as a credentialed and licensed insurance professional, Kathleen uses her expertise to build high performing teams to ensure compliance, transform business processes, and provide insurance consultative support to the lending and servicing leaders. Kathleen is an industry leader in advocating for reform of the Flood Disaster Protection Act and speaks often on this topic. In the past, she worked with the Mortgage Bankers Association in lobbying Congress for the creation of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), created the ACORD 28 Property Certificate and co-authored the “Blanket Insurance” and “Due Diligence for Force Placed Insurance” whitepapers. More recently, Kathleen contributed to the content of the first edition of the ABA’s Reference Guide to Flood Compliance.

Rebecca Leeper, Jr.

Senior Director Strategy & Innovation, Moody's Analytics CRE

Becky Leeper is a Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation for Climate at Moody’s Analytics, working for the past 12 years with insurance and financial services organizations on deploying catastrophe models to understand climate and climate change risk. At Moody's RMS she leads client and partnership work to maximize opportunities for our climate models and data. This includes promoting the use of Moody’s RMS models, analytics, and data across a variety of climate use cases within banking, CRE, investment management, corporates, and governments. By clearly understanding the impact of climate change, these organizations can quickly and accurately respond to regulatory reporting and be prepared when a large event such as a flood, wildfire, earthquake, or hurricane happens. Prior to RMS, Becky spent more than a decade partnering with financial firms in the use of models for valuation and risk management within fixed income. Becky holds a BS in computer science from Duke University.