The title of my paper is "The Role of the International Reinsurance Broker". Some of you may be surprised that Reinsurance Brokers lead a separate existence from Insurance Brokers and indeed many Reinsurance Brokers are offshoots of major Insurance broking houses. However there is a small but distinguished band of Brokers who specialize in Reinsurance, and it is their role, in the context of the risk of earthquake, I propose to examine.