Rob Bernard is the Director of Climate Risk Modeling at PwC where he focuses on physical risk modeling, climate change, and related risk management and risk mitigation strategies. Rob leads a team that develops analytics, models, and quantitative frameworks that estimate the deleterious effects of climate change.

Rob has developed analytics and models in a variety of industries, from simulating long-term land use and demographic change for small towns, to creation of machine learning models of fraud detection, to creation of innovative natural language processing techniques for measuring engagement, commitment, and understanding in online discussion forums.

He has a Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Psychology from Princeton, a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning and Gaming/Simulation studies from Michigan, and he is currently completing his Master's thesis in Predictive Analytics at Northwestern.