Education
After training in architecture at Christ"s College at the University of Cambridge, Coburn completed a Doctor of Philosophy thesis in July, 1987 on Seismic vulnerability and risk reduction strategies for housing in Eastern Turkey.
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Career
He is a senior vice president at Risk Management Solutions and oversees the model development carried out in the Rated Maximum Sinusoidal LifeRisks team Coburn has also worked extensively with Robert Spence (engineer), Director of CURBE (the Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment). Coburn has studied many natural and man-made catastrophe events, including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, terrorist attacks and disease pandemics.
He is one of the leading contributors to the creation of the class of catastrophe models that over the past 20 years has come to be an accepted part both of business management in financial services and of public policy making for societal risk.
Coburn"s field damage surveys include Irpinia in Italy, the Spitak in Armenia, Mexico City, Erzurum-Kars in Turkey, San‘ā’ (Arabic: صنعاء) in Yemen, Luzon, Philippines, Gujarat in India, Kobe in Japan, and New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
