By Elliot WILLIAMS
This week, the Ghana Insurers Association (GIA) will host the 3rd edition of its annual International Educational Seminar in Accra. The event, which will last for three days – from Wednesday, May 14 to Friday, May 16 – will be held at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel under the theme: “Innovating Together – Building a Resilient Insurance Future.”
The Seminar, which is being sponsored by WAICA Re – the reinsurance company owned by WAICA, the grouping of insurance companies in Anglophone West Africa – will provide capacity building for participating insurance practitioners in Ghana, as well as offering a networking platform for them.
The event will bring together a plethora of some of the most skilled and experienced insurers and reinsurers in Ghana, along with several experts in relevant related fields such as marketing, corporate communications, economics, corporate management and information technology.
The topic for the first day will be “Transformational Leadership in Driving Innovation and Resilience” with the main speaker being Michael Kofi Andoh, the immediate past acting Commissioner of the National Insurance Commissioner. Five experts from Ghana – and Mulenga Mutati, the President of the Zambia Insurance Association – will serve as discussants and Priority Insurance’s Abubakari Salifu acting as Moderator.
The second and third days will comprise of breakout sessions. One will be on life insurance with five speakers: Nashiru Iddrisu of Hollard Life Insurance; Mrs Kakra Duffuor-Nyarko of Star Life Assurance; Maame Dufie Achampong-Kyei of Glico Life Insurance; Emmanuel Jonah of GN Reinsurance; and Alfred Ludwig Kissiedu of Red Pear Communications.
Another breakout session will address non-life insurance. The five speakers will be: Dr Kwaku Appietu-Ankrah of Ghana Reiunsurance; Farris E. Attrickie of Priority Insurance; Charles Graham-Mensah of Glico General Insurance; Mrs Freda Larbi of Enterprise Insurance; and Professor Patrick Assuming of the University of Ghana.
Yet another breakout session will address actuarial issues with the speakers being John Mensah of Gal Consulting & Advisory Services and Samuel Noonoo of the Actuarial Society of Ghana.
The other breakout sessions will address Information Technology and Accounting, while three technical presentations will also be made.
