Sylvain Coutu

Head of Agriculture and Nature Insurance - AXA Climate

Sylvain is Head of Agriculture and Nature Insurance at AXA Climate. His role is to develop new products around parametric and hybrid insurance, with a special focus on insuring risks related to the agriculture transition, such as a change in farming practices. Sylvain and his team work with all sorts of data and technology, from satellite for crop monitoring to e-DNA for biodiversity estimates. Previously, Sylvain worked as an agriculture underwriter and Head of Innovation Special Lines at Swiss Re. Sylvain is also the Chair of NASA Harvest Agriculture Finance and holds a PhD in environmental risk management from EPFL.