Permanence, Financing, and Scalability – How Insurance Can Be the Vital Key to Unlock and Secure the Future of Nature

Will is the CEO and Founder of GaiaSicura Ltd., an entity he setup following twelve years in traditional legal and insurance based roles in Italy and London. GaiaSicura is the world’s first specialist insurance broker dedicated to finding specialist solutions to the bespoke needs of nature regeneration projects, ranging from protecting assets to allowing scalability, fidelity, and security of project types across all types of nature regeneration and the associated entities involved. Will is also the founder and chairman of the Insurance Institute of London’s Nature and Sustainability Committee, a cross-sector committee looking to educate the specialty insurance markets on the challenges facing the industry, as well as its potential solutions that it can bring to bear. He also leads the Insurance Workstream for the FloodAction Coalition, creating scalable and replicable frameworks for Natural Flood Management projects and their financing both in the UK and globally. The son of a farmer and a passionate supporter of nature first principles Will is championing the drive for solutions that are net-positive for all and using his experience in the traditional insurance market to innovate ways to ultimately Secure a Future for Nature.