Doruk Onal

As a Climate Risk Consultant within the Climate & ESG Solutions team, Doruk advises a wide range of financial institutions on integrating climate strategy within their investment decision-making processes. Using research-based insights from Ortec Finance’s climate scenario analysis solution, he guides clients on how to measure, manage, and monitor their investment portfolio’s climate risk exposure by evaluating worldwide economic, asset class, and sector impacts under different futures.

Before joining Ortec Finance in 2022, Doruk worked at Aegon/Transamerica, a global insurance and asset management company, where he specialized in developing and maintaining financial risk models. He played a key role in the development of their in-house COVID impact assessment and climate risk models as part of their ORSA initiatives, ran credit risk models for the IFRS9 framework, and worked with the solvency capital requirements (SCR) under the Solvency II framework.  

He also led the EIOPA Market and Credit Risk Comparative Study, an initiative aimed at benchmarking the market and credit risk practices of various insurance firms to ensure regulatory compliance and enhance risk management strategies. With over a decade of experience, Doruk's expertise lies in quantitative modeling and data analytics, with a focus on climate and credit risk modeling in the finance sector over the past five years. 

Doruk holds a PhD in Physics from Koc University.