Hiscox appoints group head of cat research

Hiscox has appointed Dr Richard Dixon as group head of catastrophe research.

Richard Dixon, who reports to Rob Caton, obtained a PhD in Meteorology from Reading University in 1999, studying the processes that lead to severe European windstorms.

He joined Risk Management Solutions in 2000 to help in understanding windstorm risk, building catastrophe models and in post-event response. Dixon subsequently worked in the catastrophe modelling teams at Benfield in 2006 and then Renaissance Re in 2010, specialising in catastrophe model evaluation in both roles.

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