Kelly Hereid
Director, Catastrophe R&D
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Dr. Hereid is the Director of Catastrophe R&D at Liberty Mutual in the Corporate Enterprise Risk Management group. She specializes in climate change, non-modeled perils, and emerging risks.
Prior to joining Liberty in 2020, she was a research scientist at Chubb. She is a board member of the International Society of Catastrophe Managers (ISCM), chair of the ISCM Education Committee, member of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) Catastrophe Management Conference planning committee, and serves on the Advisory Council for the University of Texas – Austin Geology Foundation. She has a Ph.D. in geological sciences from the University of Texas – Austin, focusing on climate science, and a B.A. in geology and biology from Carleton College in Minnesota.