Full Name | Company | Job Title | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
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Guy Burrows | Inigo Insurance | Senior Underwriter Terrorism and Political Violence | (not set) | Panel discussion and Q&A: State of the market - meet the underwriters | |
Julia Graham | Airmic | CEO | - | Welcome address | |
Charlie Grace | BPL Global | Assistant Director | Charlie Grace is an Assistant Director at BPL Global and has significant experience placing business across the Credit and Political Risk Insurance (CPRI) spectrum for many global clients, including traders, banks, exporters and investors. Charlie has been instrumental in the collection over US$300 million of claims from the CPRI market and has placed many complex Political Violence programs for clients in challenging jurisdictions. | Panel discussion and Q&A: State of the market - meet the underwriters | |
Joe Pearman | The Hartford | Senior Political Violence Underwriter | Joe has 9 years’ experience underwriting a global portfolio within the Lloyd’s and wider marketplace, and was the first Political Violence and Terrorism employee at The Hartford when their coverage offering began back in 2016. Joe focuses primarily on creating tailored solutions for his clients as the worldwide geopolitical landscape continues to evolve. Combining both his experience and best in practise analytical tools The Hartford has to offer, he has become a reputable underwriter within the London market. | Panel discussion and Q&A: State of the market - meet the underwriters | |
Zoe Towndrow | BPL Global | Practice Lead, Political Violence | With 26 years’ experience in political risk and political violence broking, Zoe Towndrow is a seasoned practitioner in the London insurance market and leader of BPL Global’s political violence practice. Her specialty is creating bespoke PV and terrorism programmes to suit the complex needs of a range of clients, including multinational corporates and cedants. As a passionate advocate for developing the markets’ capabilities and the political violence product, she is not afraid of injecting new ideas and energy into existing market practices and has been involved in numerous new wording initiatives over the course of her career. | Keynote: When did you last read your War Risks exclusions? Specialist Terrorism & Political Violence coverages Final round up | |
Hermes Marangos | SIGNATURE LITIGATION LLP | Partner | With over 30 years' experience, Hermès is a leading international disputes lawyer representing major entities on complex matters, including international (re)insurance and underlying commercial litigation, particularly in the Americas, Mediterranean basin, MENA, West Africa and Asia. Hermès is a leading expert on issues of political violence and the effect of covers and war exclusions in property but also financial and cyber covers, participating in some of the major seminal disputes recently in this area. He is qualified as a barrister and solicitor of England and Wales, effectively multilingual in seven languages (English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish) and has dealt with, litigated, arbitrated or mediated in more than 70 countries. | War Risks exclusions in action: The impact on Political Violence claims |