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Andrew William Coburn (born 1956 in Chester, England) is known in the discipline of catastrophe modeling and is the Director of External Advisory Board, Centre for Risk Studies at the University of Cambridge.〔(Centre for Risk Studies Advisory Board )〕 He is a senior vice president at Risk Management Solutions and oversees the model development carried out in the RMS LifeRisks team.〔( AUTHOR ARCHIVES: ANDREW COBURN )〕 After training in architecture at Christ's College at the University of Cambridge,〔(Andrew Coburn on LinkedIn )〕 Coburn completed a PhD thesis in July, 1987 on ''Seismic vulnerability and risk reduction strategies for housing in Eastern Turkey''. Coburn has also worked extensively with Robert Spence (engineer), Director of CURBE (the Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment). Coburn has studied many natural and man-made catastrophe events, including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, terrorist attacks and disease pandemics. He is one of the leading contributors to the creation of the class of catastrophe models that over the past 20 years has come to be an accepted part both of business management in financial services and of public policy making for societal risk.〔(Cambridge Networks Network, Dr Andrew Coburn )〕 Coburn's field damage surveys include Irpinia in Italy, the Spitak in Armenia, Mexico City, Erzurum-Kars in Turkey, San‘ā’ ((アラビア語:صنعاء)) in Yemen, Luzon, Philippines, Gujarat in India, Kobe in Japan, and New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ==Personal life== Coburn married Helen Mulligan in 1987; they have a son and a daughter and lives near Cambridge, England. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Coburn (catastrophe modeller)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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