The Reactions Magazine Middle East Reinsurance Conference will take place at The Four Seasons Doha on 28th and 29th September. As the leading financial publication for the insurance and reinsurance industry worldwide, Reactions Magazine brings an unrivalled standard of content to its portfolio of conferences. This combined with the expertise of Euromoney Seminars in producing world class events in the Middle East and Islamic Finance, promises to result in the market leading Reinsurance and Retakaful conference in the region.
The Middle East, the states within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in particular, are attracting increasingly intense interest from the international insurance and reinsurance community.
These are rapidly changing times and as global financial markets and economies are trying to come to terms with a new world order the Middle East insurance markets continue to grow and move to their next level of sophistication and development so as to meet global insurance. As the local primary markets continue their expansion, the reinsurance markets are becoming increasingly global and international players are seeking to establish a foothold in the region to provide significant local capacity and cutting edge expertise.
Despite the influx of capacity, competition and sophistication into this nascent global market place, effective navigation and thorough understanding of local regulatory frameworks and markets is imperative.
It is imperative that both global and local players to tackle head-on the many challenges posed by this region so as to capitalise on these opportunities.
An innovative programme of discussions will serve as a platform for the most senior representatives from insurers, reinsurers, brokers, bankers and lawyers as well as risk managers from the region’s most preeminent corporations to discuss key issues including:
· Middle East reinsurance in an international market place: How global experiences can shape a nascent market’s framework
· Examining the role and expansion of reinsurance brokers in promoting transparent and efficient reinsurance operations
· Corporate risk managers’ roundtable: addressing the requirements of the regions’ major corporate players
· Reinsurance contracts and meeting international standards in legal documentation
· How to manage risk in the reinsurance industry
· Standardization of legal frameworks across the region as a driver for a local reinsurance market
· Addressing fragmentation and need for consolidation across local insurance companies
· Growth of social security programmes and emergence of lucrative life products
· Creating a hub for captive and reinsurance companies
· Increasing sophistication in risk and capital management techniques and practices in GCC
· Asset manager’s role in insurance risk management
· Expansion and sophistication of takaful and retakaful products
· Increased penetration and improved primary distribution channels as a foundation of a flourishing market
· Meeting international industry standards in primary insurance operations
Confirmed speakers include:
Jason Light, Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Insurance
Shankar Garigiparthy, Director, Insurance Supervision, Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority
Giles Ward, Regional Managing Director, Ace Insurance
Mark Greenwood, Head of Business Development, MENA Region, The Chartered Insurance Institute
James Sutherland, Chief Executive Officer, Qatar Insurance Services LLC
Oussama A. Kassi, General Manager, Abu Dhabi National Takaful Co.
Abdulaziz Almansour, Chairman & Managing Director, Al Safat Takaful
Abdulraouf Abu Regeila, General Manager, Boubyan Takaful
Louis Habib-Deloncle, CEO, Garant Insurance Cy
Samy E. Al-Ali, Executive Vice President, Technical, Malath Insurance
Mohammed Jassim Al Jassim, General Manager,Al Khazna Insurance Company
Tarik Aouad, Chief Underwriting Officer, Hannover ReTakaful B.S.C.
Paul Balthasart, Head of reinsurance, Ducroire SA
Cyril Salibi, Risk Management Specialist
Natasha Wood, nwood@euromoneyplc.com - for speaking opportunities
Siham Ammoura, sammoura@euromoneyplc.com - for sponsorship opportunities
Karina Katysheva, kkatysheva@euromoneyplc.com - for registrations or marketing opportunties