Dr. Robert T. Reville is the CEO and cofounder of Praedicat, the liability risk analytics company. Praedicat’s risk models are used for underwriting and risk management by leading P&C insurers and global industrials. Prior to co-founding Praedicat, Bob was Senior Economist at the RAND Corporation, where he conceived and led an R&D project mining the text of peer-reviewed science to identify emerging "next asbestos" risks. The project provided the foundation for Praedicat and Bob traded policy research for start-up life. Bob's research career focused on liability, risk and insurance. He was the Director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice, a liability research center which published influential research on asbestos; and co-director of the RAND Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy, which published research on terrorism insurance that was cited in congressional debates over the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act. Bob has also written over a dozen studies on workers' compensation. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Brown University.