Pat Wielinski practices in the areas of construction, insurance coverage and risk management. He provides advice on risk management issues and programs, integrating insurance, contract documents and project relationships to manage and transfer risk for his clients. He also counsels clients as to insurance coverage and contractual risk transfer disputes, having been involved in insurance coverage claims for defective workmanship for over 35 years. At the same time, his practice involves commercial general liability, additional insured, builders risk, wrap ups and controlled insurance programs, subcontractor default coverage, design professional, contractors protective professional liability, miscellaneous errors and omissions, environmental, oil and gas, property, directors and officers and other third party and first party coverages. Pat regularly lectures to construction, insurance, and legal groups on insurance coverage and risk management issues, having authored numerous publications, many of which are relied upon in the insurance and construction industries.

Bramka Jafino is part of GFDRR via the World Bank Group's Young Professionals Program. He was previously a consultant at Deltares (The Netherlands), mainly working on flood risk and impact assessment and infrastructure planning. His background revolves around the use of simulation models to support planning under uncertainty, with applications in diverse fields including disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, water, and transportation. During his PhD at Delft University of Technology, he proposed methods to operationalize equity considerations in long-term planning for climate change. He also worked as an STC for the Bank, joining projects on estimating climate change impacts on poverty. He enjoys casual photography and cycling in his free time.




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