CATASTROPHE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST

Leigh McCarthy is a glacial hazard and risk minimization specialist and has seven years' experience in catastrophe management, applying modeling technology to glacial risk programmes, risk transfer, and management decisions. She has an outstanding track record in creative problem solving. McCarthy's risk management is a structured approach to managing uncertainty related to the threat to large scale ice structures including: risk assessment, strategies development to manage it, and mitigation of risk using managerial resources. She has worked with the Institute developing proprietary chaos theory tools and curriculum. She has received fellowships from the University of London College and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She currently lives in San Francisco, California where she strategizes mitigating the negative effects of glacial risk accepting some or all of the consequences inherent in that risk.


  Mission
  Projects
  Bios
  Contact



Angela Ellsworth
Leigh McCarthy