Gordon Woo is a catastrophist, specializing on mathematical aspects of catastrophe insurance risk modeling. Since 9/11, he has focused on developing a quantitative framework for modeling terrorism risk, and is the chief architect of the RMS terrorism model. His work on terrorism has been publicized widely, in periodicals ranging from the Wall Street Journal to the Swiss Military Review. He has served as a terrorism expert panelist for both the Department of Homeland Security and the UK Cabinet Office. Dr. Woo graduated top of his mathematics class at Cambridge University. He completed his PhD as a Kennedy Scholar at M.I.T., after which he was elected a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows.

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