Ginger Turner

Swiss Re

Ginger Turner is Manager Strategy Development and chief of staff to the Group Chief Strategy Officer of the reinsurance company Swiss Re. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Business School. As an economist, her research has focused on catastrophe risk and insurance, including the behavioral economics of risk-taking after natural disasters, terrorism insurability, mobile distribution in emerging markets, and the global natural disaster underinsurance gap. Prior to joining Swiss Re, she worked in the World Bank Office of the Chief Economist, The Wharton School, and Goldman Sachs. Turner studied at Stanford University (BA Econ/MS Engineering) and the University of Oxford (MPhil/DPhil Econ) as a Rhodes Scholar. She is a Senior Fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.