Philippe Cotelle is the Head of Insurance and Risk Management of Airbus Defence & Space since 2014, gathering all Airbus activities in Space, Defence and Military Transport Aviation belonging to the former Divisions Astrium, Cassidian and Airbus Military.
He is Board member of AMRAE (French Risk Management Association), President of the Cyber Commission of AMRAE, Board member of FERMA (Federation of European Risk Management Associations) and coordinates a research progIn charge of implementing a dedicated cyber insurance program for Airbus, he has developed within Airbus a new approach for Business impact analysis related to a cyber event. He was recently awarded at the European Risk Management Awards 2018 for the Innovative Insurance Program of the year. ram with the French Institute of Research and Technology on cyber risk management.
In charge of implementing a dedicated cyber insurance program for Airbus, he has developed within Airbus a new approach for Business impact analysis related to a cyber event. He was recently awarded at the European Risk Management Awards 2018 for the Innovative Insurance Program of the year.
In line with his activities, Philippe Cotelle has contributed to the joint report from FERMA and ECIIA (European Confederation of Institute of Internal Auditors) on Corporate Cyber Risk Governance submitted to European Commission on June 2017. In 2018 Philippe is coordinating the Cyber Day of the FERMA Seminar in Antwerp gathering risk managers and insurance executive at European level. He will publicly present the new report on “Developing dialog on cyber insurance” for mid cap companies done in partnership with Insurance Europe (European Federation of National insurance association) and BIPAR (European Federation of Insurance Brokers).
He is part of the international expert group collaborating with OECD on “improving the measurement of digital security incidents and risk management”. He is contributing to Informal Group of experts that will guide the development of the updated 2008 OECD Recommendation of the Council on the Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure and will participate to the OECD Summit on Digital Security for Prosperity which will take place in Paris in Dec 2018.
Since 2006, he was in charge of Insurance Risk Management for Astrium, gathering the Space activities of Airbus including the 3 business units EADS Astrium Satellites, EADS Astrium Space Transportation and EADS Astrium Services.
Since 2004/2005 Philippe Cotelle was in charge of the Risk Management and Insurance of major programs such as Paradigm, the largest UK MOD PFI contract and the first of the space industry, or Satcom BW, the procurement of a turn key military communication system and services for German Bundeswehr . He was also leading the negotiation for insurance and risk management with the European Commission in the name of the European Consortium bidding for the Concession of the Galileo project.
From 2000 to 2004, he was Senior Space Risk Underwriter at SCOR one of leading company of the space insurance market. He was member of the Space Study Group of the Federation Francaise des Sociétés d’Assurance (FFSA) and representative of the French Reinsurance Association at the IUAI.
Philippe Cotelle is graduated Engineer from Ecole Nationale Superieure de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace in 1994 and Executive MBA from Essec & Mannheim 2007.