Praveen Sharma
Practice Leader - Insurance Regulation & Tax Consulting
Marsh
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Workshop: Still searching for Nirvana
Marina Tsokur
Regional Insurance Director (EMEA)
Cargill
Marina has 17 years of experience working as part of the Cargill Global Insurance team with businesses worldwide and manages Regional insurances in EMEA for the Cargill Group as well as its Global Marine Cargo Insurance Program, including through the use of the captive. As part of her role, she is responsible for the management and development of International Insurance Programmes for the Group with respect to cargo (globally) and EMEA (multiple lines). Marina is a Board member of Airmic and an active contributor to committees and special interest groups on captive insurance of Airmic, SIRM and Ferma.
Captives: the beating heart of a global programme – why captives are essential tools in financing global risk
Anna Vidgen
Head Claims UK, Ireland & South Africa
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions
Anna leads a team of 20 colleagues across property, casualty, and aviation classes. Previously Anna worked at Renaissance Re, where she was responsible for leading a team of claims professionals across multiple lines of direct and reinsurance business, as well as having previously been a senior casualty claims adjuster at AXA XL.
Anna is passionate about the status and ambition of claims in the London market, and her work in this area includes being Deputy Chair of the IUA Claims Strategy Committee focussing on transformational strategic aspects of the IUAs mandate on behalf of the company market.
Workshop: Right here, right now: the importance of claims management – ensuring efficient, reliable claims handling across regions
Angelika Werner
Research Director of Climate Resilience & Risk
FM
Angelika joined FM in 2023 and is leading FM's global research activities relating to climate risk from the new research and training centre under development in Luxembourg. Direct reports to this position currently include a diverse team of scientists studying flood, wildfire, temperature events, wind, and other severe storms located in the U.S. (Norwood, Massachusetts), Asia (Singapore) and EMEA (Luxembourg). Prior to joining FM, Angelika was strategy manager for Reinsurance and Solutions at Swiss Re, where she also held positions in innovation and natural catastrophe model development. Her career includes working as a catastrophe risk analyst for Allianz, an R&D manager for Wills Re, and leading the Willis Research Network Climate Hub
Adapting to new climate norms – addressing extreme weather, corporate resilience and the rise of parametric covers
Neville White
Senior Casualty Broker
Marsh
Neville has worked in the London Market for 34 years, underwriting UK and European Liability business and global Liability programmes at Allianz, Travelers and Tokio Marine Kiln.
He joined Marsh Casualty Placement team in 2021, placing retail, automotive, manufacturing, chemicals and life science accounts.
From nuclear settlements to social inflation: the continuing rise of liability risks – examining the litigation surge and its spread to Europe
Justine Youngman
Senior Casualty Underwriter
QBE Insurance
Justine has been underwriting complex casualty business for almost 35 years and multinational accounts for the past 10 years. She has a portfolio of risks both with attritional losses and high value claim potential, on traditional and alternative programme structures. She currently works in the Major Risks and Multinational UK team at QBE Insurance.
From nuclear settlements to social inflation: the continuing rise of liability risks – examining the litigation surge and its spread to Europe
