Vijay Manghnani is the SVP, Head of Risk and Analytics at the PIMCO ILS Fund and the Chief Risk Officer & Chief Actuary at Newport Re. He is responsible for implementing state of the art science and analytics into PIMCO’s ILS trading and portfolio management strategy. Most recently, he was the Head of Catastrophe Risk Management and Analytics COE at AIG. Prior to that, Mr. Manghnani was at ACE USA, where he managed a portfolio of innovative weather/catastrophe insurance products was responsible catastrophe risk management for various property and specialty businesses. Previously, Mr. Manghnani held the positions of Climatologist and Trader at Weather Predict (a Renaissance Re subsidiary) and at Aquila Inc, where he was responsible for weather & climate derivatives trading and portfolio management.

He holds a Ph.D. in Meteorology from North Carolina State University. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society and a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS). He has also served as the Chair of the North American Actuaries Climate Change Committee which is charged with quantifying the risk of climate change for the insurance industry. Mr. Manghnani has also held the position of Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering at Clemson University.