Markel International has appointed Amer Ibrahim as marine underwriter in Dubai to extend the range of its business in the MENA region. Ibrahim will focus on developing Markel’s position in the range of marine classes. Markel was granted regulatory approval by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to operate within...
SCOR has announced the appointment of Graeme Scott as its EMEA Casualty chief underwriting officer, hiring him from his most recent position as head of Inwards Reinsurance at Markel International. Scott will be based in London for the reinsurer, where he will lead a team focused on development of the...
IPMI provider Now Health International has announced the merger of its Asia Pacific and Middle East and Africa regions to support the development of its global service proposition. Now Health International’s Asia Pacific and Middle East and Africa regions will be combined to form a new, larger region to be...
SCOR has announced the launch of a new EMEA Hub, covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a further step in its efficiency drive. The EMEA Hub will bring together SCOR’s existing Paris-London and Zurich-Cologne Hubs, providing a much more simplified structure to the reinsurance group across operations in the...
AU Group, a broker exclusively specialised in trade credit insurance, financing and management of trade receivables, has opened a new office – AU Group Middle East – in Dubai to provide trade credit insurance to local and global clients. AU Group Middle East is led by Aurélien Paradis, who has...
African reinsurer, One Re, has announced Nicholas Davenport as appointed Board chairman with immediate effect. Davenport is successor to Gilles Bonvarlet who is stepping down from the Board after providing leadership from the firm’s early days of expansion out of the start-up phase. The newly appointed chairman has nearly 30...
Chubb has announced four appointments to its underwriting team in MENA, as it continues to build its insurance capabilities in the region. Adam Groves currently senior underwriter, Oil and Energy for Chubb in MENA, has been promoted to the role of regional manager, Oil and Energy, MENA. In his new...
Doha Insurance Group has announced the appointment of Jassim Ali A al-Moftah as its chief executive officer The announcement was made by Doha Insurance Group chairman Sheikh Nawaf Nasser bin Khalid al-Thani in Doha. Al-Moftah, a Qatar national, has a long-standing track record within the local and regional insurance sector....
Fenchurch Faris Ltd. has appointed Mustafa Jarrah as reinsurance treaty manager in its DIFC Representative office in Dubai. He is tasked with growing the company’s expanding treaty business in the Middle East and North Africa region. Jarrah has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the American University of...
Autodata Middle East, a provider of independent and accurate vehicle data in the UAE, has appointed Ian Batey as its new general manager to expand the brand’s presence in the Middle East. Batey is tasked with moving the company to its goal of being the premier provider of information and...
