Nigel Bowman, Product & Distribution Executive at Inclusivity Solutions has been appointed Chair of the International Actuarial Association’s (IAA) Microinsurance Working Group from January 2016. The Working Group is responsible for coordinating the microinsurance efforts of the various IAA committees and facilitates the development of microinsurance and actuarial involvement in this area.

Nigel is a highly experienced actuary with over 18 years of experience in the insurance industry with some of South Africa’s largest insurance companies, including Metropolitan International. He has also consulted extensively on a number of microinsurance-related projects including insurance market diagnostics in Tanzania and Mozambique, the regulation of informal funeral insurance providers, and the development of a measure of the financial value provided by life microinsurance programmes.

ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL ACTUARIAL ASSOCIATION

The IAA is the worldwide association of professional actuarial associations, with a number of special interest sections for individual actuaries. The IAA exists to encourage the development of a global profession, acknowledged as technically competent and professionally reliable, which will ensure that the public interest is served.