Profile - International Insurance Foundation

Annual Meeting Symposium
Financial Globalization: Its Potential for Risk Management

October 12, 2007

Speakers

Lael Brainard, Ph.D., is Vice President and Founding Director of the Brookings Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings and holds the Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in International Economics. She served as Deputy National Economic Adviser and Chair of the Deputy Secretaries Committee on International Economics during the Clinton Administration. As Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, she helped build a new White House organization to address global economic challenges such as the Asian financial crisis and China's WTO entry. She helped shape the 2000 G8 Development Summit that for the first time included leaders of the poorest nations and laid the foundations for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.

S. Nuri Erbas, Ph.D. joined the International Monetary Fund in 1989, following an academic career. He worked in the Fiscal Affairs, Middle East and Central Asia, IMF Institute, and Research Departments. Since 2006, he is an Advisor at the Executive Director's Office. He has publications in the areas of optimal monetary policy, debt sustainability, exchange rates, labor markets, CPI indexes, and mortgage markets in emerging economies. He has made numerous presentations in international conferences. His recent research interest is decision making in ambiguity (Knightian uncertainty) and its economic applications (IMF conditionality; insurance markets; financial markets), as well as in institutional economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University and he is a national of Turkey. The paper he presents was co-authored with Mr. Abbas Mirakhor (Dean).

Robert Gibbons, Ph.D., CPCU, CLU, Executive Director and President, International Insurance Foundation, has written widely on insurance accounting and finance and recently drafted the IAIS Core Curriculum modules on Supervisory Authority and on Investments.

Andrew F. Giffin, Principal in the Tillinghast business of Towers Perrin, previously served as First Deputy Commissioner for the Massachusetts Division of Insurance, and as Chief Counsel for the Pennsylvania Insurance Department. He is publisher of the Tillinghast journal Emphasis.

Safet Kozarevic, Ph.D., belongs to the Faculty of Economics of the University of Tuzla in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Currently he is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Fox School of Business and Management of Temple University in Philadelphia, where his project is "Development Possibilities of Risk Management, the Insurance Sector and Actuarial Science in South-East Europe."

W. Jean Kwon, Ph.D., CPCU, is Associate Professor of Insurance at the School of Risk Management, St. John's University. He is the author, with Harold D. Skipper, of Risk Management and Insurance: Perspectives in a Global Economy. He is an interim editor of Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, on the editorial and advisory boards of several insurance journals and insurance institutions worldwide, and offers lecture/consulting services to insurance-related entities. He is past President of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association and serves the Organization Committee of the World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress in 2010 in Paris, France.

Pietro Masci is Chief of the Infrastructure and Financial Markets Division of the Inter-American Development Bank. From 1993 - 1998, he was Chief of the Cofinancing Division of the Bank. He worked for the Italian Treasury and was responsible for the external borrowing programs, management of public debt, Export financing and multilateral aid programs. He managed the US portfolio for Italian Mutual Funds Company. He has served as Chairman of the Audit Committee and as a Board Member of Italian banks. He has also worked with the Inter-American Investment Corporation and World Bank. Mr. Masci holds degrees in Political Science and Economics from the University of Rome; a diploma in international banking from London Polytechnic; and an MBA in finance from George Washington University.

Linda Schmid is an Independent Consultant on International Trade Policy and Development. As Trade in Services Officer at the International Trade Center in Geneva, she focused on helping least developed and developing countries identify their interests in GATS negotiations. As Trade Director for the USAID financed Caribbean Trade and Competitiveness Program, she developed projects to support services integration within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy. She also served as the Vice President and Director of Electronic Commerce for the US Coalition of Service Industries and as the Vice Chair of the US Industry Functional Advisory Committee on Electronic Commerce for Trade Policy Matters during the US-Chile FTA negotiations. She is a contributing author to the WTO's Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation.

Kim B. Staking, Ph.D., will soon join the Finance and Real Estate Department at Colorado State University, where he will teach the Finance component of the newly established MSMBA in Global, Social and Sustainable Enterprise. His research interests focus on the intersection of insurance and financial markets and the development of risk mitigation tools for emerging markets. Since 1991, he has worked on financial market development at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Janice M. Tomlinson, Executive Vice President, Chubb & Son, is responsible for all international field operations. She joined Chubb in 1973 as a commercial underwriter. She managed several underwriting departments in New Haven, Westchester and NY before managing the Westchester branch from 1986-1990. During 1990, she became Worldwide Director of Human Resources and in 1995 was named Canadian Zone officer, Chairman and President of Chubb Canada before assuming her current position in December 2003. While managing Chubb Canada, was also a Board Member of INROADS/Toronto Ltd., Providence Centre Foundation, Toronto Board of Trade, Women in Insurance Cancer Crusade, The United Way of Greater Toronto and the Insurance Institute of Canada. Currently, she is a Board Member of the Morristown Neighborhood House. Jan was recently recognized as one of NJ's Best Women in Business from NJBiz. She serves as Chairman of the Chubb Insurance Company of Canada board and is a member of the boards of Chubb Atlantic Indemnity and Chubb Insurance Company of Europe.

Hung Q. Tran is Senior Director, Capital Markets and Emerging Markets Policy Department & Head of Global Capital Markets Research, at the Institute of International Finance. He is responsible for the Institute's emerging market policy work, which includes the implementation of programs associated with the Principles and the Group of Trustees that has oversight of the development and implementation of the Principles, support for the IIF's Special Committee on Crisis Prevention and Resolution, associated policy issues, as well as global capital market developments. Previously he served at the International Monetary Fund as Deputy Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, where his responsibilities included the overall management of the Fund's semi-annual Global Financial Stability Report. From 1998 to 2001 he was the Managing Director, Chief Economist/Global Head of Research for Rabobank International in London. Earlier in his career he worked for Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, and Salomon Brothers.

Ian Webb, Ph.D. is the International Insurance Foundation's Director of Research, as well as the head of its Latin American office. His work focuses on emerging insurance industries, coordination of regulatory reform, international best practices in the supervision of insurance, and the role of insurance markets in economic development. Recently completed papers include an assessment of the Argentinean insurance industry, a comparison of U.S and European Capital Requirements, and the determinants of life insurance market penetration. He earned his Ph.D. at Georgia State University with a dissertation analyzing the role of insurers and banks in the productivity growth of economies. Previously he worked in the Financial Sector Development Department of the World Bank. From 2003 to 2005, he was seconded to the Inter-American Development Bank.

Program Speakers


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