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The annual award celebrates women insurance leaders whose work positively impacts society and contributes to making insurance a force for good

ZURICH, 12 MAY 2022 – The Geneva Association is pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Geneva Association Women in Insurance Award: Anne Fortin, Executive Vice President, Direct Distribution and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Intact Financial Corporation (IFC).

• AIA Chief Executive & President Lee Yuan Siong becomes Vice Chairman

• Aviva CEO Amanda Blanc joins Board

The annual award celebrates women insurance leaders whose work positively impacts society and contributes to making insurance a force for good

ZURICH, 7 July 2021 – The 2021 Geneva Association Women in Insurance Award goes to Nina Arquint, Chief Risk Officer at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, for her work and commitment to driving the reduction of coal underwriting. 

• In its new report, The Geneva Association offers a comprehensive projection of the risk landscape in the post-pandemic world, or ‘New Normal’, expounding the four most consequential shifts for insurers: accelerated digitalisation, ‘Big Government’, pivot to resilience and sustainability, and more remote working.
• The study draws on 25 interviews with experts and industry executives and on a 2021 customer survey of

2021 prize jointly awarded for two doctoral theses: one on the economics of health insurance plans and one on behavioural factors in insurance purchasing

• From Risk Transfer to Risk Prevention – How the Internet of Things is reshaping business models in insurance is a first-of-its-kind study of the paradigm shift in insurance to real-time risk prevention solutions, enabled by Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.
• Offering major benefits to both insurance retail and business customers, IoT has the potential to mitigate risks and encourage less risky behaviour.

• To support government-insurer discussions on how to close the protection gap for business interruption risk in the case of a pandemic, The Geneva Association has released Public-Private Solutions to Pandemic Risk, outlining four possible government-led schemes: 1) direct insurance, 2) reinsurance, 3) social insurance and 4) post-event protection.

• The first report in this series,

• The Geneva Association has mobilised experts from 17 of the world’s largest P&C and life insurers*, representing the companies of its CEO members, to develop and hone climate risk assessment methodologies and tools for the insurance industry.

• The first report of the task force presents an integrated decision-making framework for climate risk assessment that considers four dimensions: 1) business line (P&C versus

• A new Geneva Association report gives a full view of flood risk management (FRM) in Canada, providing evidence of reform, such as new insurer-government collaborations to address the challenge.
• The insurance industry is supporting communities and households to reduce their flood risks, and the federal government has taken the first step towards a National High Risk Residential Flood Insurance Program.
• The report points to th