Chip Cunliffe is Co-Founder and Senior Director, Innovation and Pipeline Development, of the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA), the only multi-sector collaboration connecting the international finance and insurance sectors, governments, non-profits, and stakeholders from the Global South to pioneer finance products that incentivise investment into coastal and ocean nature-based solutions.

Chip has spent the past 10 years working in the insurance industry, identifying ways in which risk transfer mechanisms and finance solutions can be best used to build resilience to ocean related risks. He established AXA’s Ocean Risk Initiative which included developing and launching a Coastal Risk Index to integrate coastal ecosystems into insurance risk models; working with partners to develop the scientific basis to create a mangrove insurance product; as well as identifying insurance pathways to prevent Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.