Evolving Risk Landscape: Insurance Specialities for the Modern Age
James Hebert
Financial Lines Practice Leader / AIG - Dubai.
James Hebert commenced his insurance career in January 2009. Having started as a Loss Adjuster dealing with Commercial Jewellers (Block). James joined an international firm of Adjusters as part of their Financial Institutions (FI) team and moved to their MENA headquarters in Dubai as the practicing Senior FI specialist in the region. After successes in this sector, James joined AIG MENA as the Financial Institutions Practice Leader, he is responsible for underwriting Professional Indemnity and Directors & Officers Liability, Crime, M&A, Public Offering Security and Kidnap & Ransom insurance for FI’s throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Russia.
Rehan Hussain
Head of Financial Lines / Allianz - Dubain
Rehan has a background in Business and Finance and has been in the Middle East Insurance market for 10 years. He has been associated with Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty since 2010 and has held roles in Market Management, Broker Management and Underwriting.
He currently Heads the Financial department for the Dubai office and manages the overall portfolio which comprises of Management Liability Financial and Commercial, Professional Indemnity and Cyber.
Saad Kaliya
Partner - PWC Pakistan
Saad is partner at PWC Pakistan and leads the practice of Technology Consulting and Risk Assurance, with over 25 years of extensive experience both locally and internationally. He started his career in assurance, then progressed to lead the technology practice of the firm. He himself has been involved in setting up firm's IT department and headed it for more than 10 years.
Saad has been involved with the provision of broad and diversified range of services to multiple clients, focusing on designing and implementing business solutions.
Simon Bell
Cyber Risks Lead / Marsh Dubai
Simon is the cyber insurance lead for Marsh in the MENA region. His main focus is to grow and develop product awareness of the insurable exposures and ensuring placements for his clients are to the highest standard. He has developed a key understanding of the risks and insurance products available in the cyber field across a broad range of sectors especially financial institutions.
Simon Dodsworth
Managing Director / Marsh - Dubai
Spanning a career of 25 years, Simon commenced his professional career in the insurance market at Lloyds of London. Since 2000, Simon has advised clients on transactions on a world-wide basis, providing consultancy services to corporate institutions and investors, providing risk identification, quantitative analysis, risk mitigation and risk transfer concepts - and most importantly solutions to complex situations. Over the past 20 years, Simon has been involved with a variety of global financial services organizations and infrastructure assets across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Central/North America. Such clients include banks, private equity / infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth funds and ‘disruptive Financial Institutions’. He has a passion for the 4th industrial revolution and the impact on global financial services. Simon has a detailed understanding of Financial & Professional Risks, which encompasses Directors’ & Officers’ Liability, Professional Indemnity, Cyber Risks, Crime, Medical Malpractice, and Kidnap & Ransom exposures across a range of global industries. He combines his insurance industry experience and financial transactional knowledge to advise clients on the range of strategic risk advice offered by Marsh to financial institutions, infrastructure asset owners, operators, financiers, developers, contractors, accounting firms, law firms and consultants.