The Insurance coverage Growth Discussion board (IDF) has named Ivo Menzinger of Swiss Re as the brand new Chair of its Working Committee (OpCo), succeeding Rowan Douglas CBE, CEO of Local weather Threat & Resilience at Howden who had been instrumental within the creation of the IDF and chaired the OpCo since its launch.
Ivo Menzinger is the Managing Director of Public Sector Enterprise at international reinsurance big Swiss Re.
He has vital expertise within the public-private partnership (PPP) house, significantly within the areas of catastrophe threat administration and insurance coverage.
Menzinger has been the Deputy Chair of the IDF OpCo, in addition to Founder and Co-Chair of the IDF Sovereign and Humanitarian Working Group for practically a decade.
The IDF is now coming into its tenth 12 months and Rowan Douglas (one of many authentic co-founders of Artemis) performed an instrumental function within the creation and growth of the IDF between 2012 and 2015, in addition to in steering its operations ever since.
He has tirelessly labored to advertise the combination of insurance coverage into international local weather threat and resilience conversations on the highest ranges, leveraging his deep contacts throughout the business and political, multi-lateral and donor funded organisation communities.
Douglas joined international insurance group Howden as CEO, Climate Risk & Resilience in 2023.
The IDF said, “For over a decade Rowan has performed a pivotal function in establishing the IDF as a revered worldwide establishment delivering resilience to local weather and catastrophe dangers.”
Michel Liès, Chair of the IDF Steering Committee, mentioned on the management change, “Rowan has been instrumental in remodeling the IDF from a daring imaginative and prescient into a world power for resilience. His strategic management has enabled the IDF to operationalise initiatives that ship actual influence. We thank him for his monumental contributions over the past decade and depend on his engagement with the IDF in future.
“As we glance forward and embark on the IDF’s subsequent section, Ivo’s experience will likely be key to catalysing extra momentum, uniting stakeholders, and scaling options to match the urgency of the second.”
Menzinger will likely be tasked with specializing in “catalysing the momentum wanted to scale local weather and catastrophe resilience options, addressing the pressing want for collaboration throughout sectors to impress significant change for susceptible communities and with a deal with accelerating implementation efforts,” the IDF additional said.
Ivo Menzinger, the brand new Chair of the IDF Working Committee, mentioned, “It’s a privilege to step into this function at such a pivotal time for the IDF and the communities it serves. As we navigate an period of escalating local weather and catastrophe dangers, our focus have to be on implementation underpinned by ambition. By strengthening partnerships and fostering innovation, we will scale sensible options that defend lives and livelihoods. The urgency of this work can’t be overstated. I look ahead to driving momentum that turns collaboration into measurable influence, guaranteeing the IDF continues to impress significant change in constructing a extra resilient future.”
Rowan Douglas CBE, CEO of Local weather Threat & Resilience at Howden, commented, “It has been an excellent pleasure to assist flip the IDF imaginative and prescient right into a thriving actuality over the past decade and see the affect and influence of this distinctive public-private partnership. We now have achieved numerous breakthroughs – technical, organisational and monetary – that many individuals considered unimaginable. Most significantly we’ve remodeled the broader recognition of insurance coverage as a vital a part of resilient growth.
“I thank everybody within the IDF neighborhood – previous and current – from throughout business, Governments, worldwide establishments, NGOs and my household who’ve supported me in main the IDF OpCo on this extraordinary journey collectively. As we enter our second decade the IDF’s mission has by no means been extra essential.
“So, I’m delighted to be handing over to Ivo along with his distinctive expertise and expertise, somebody who I’ve loved working with within the IDF since 2014. I want him each success in taking the IDF to the following stage and look ahead to supporting him and the IDF in its thrilling future.”
