1,500 delegates to attend Arab insurance conference.Byline: ARTHUR MACDONALD MANAMA: Up to 1,500 delegates covering the entire industry are expected to attend the 27th General Arab Insurance Federation (Gaif) conference when it returns to Bahrain for the first time in 26 years in February. Members of the steering committee steer·ing committee n. A committee that sets agendas and schedules of business, as for a legislative body or other assemblage. steering committee Noun organising the event yesterday announced the panelists and sponsors for its upcoming conference - widely regarded as the Arab world's most important insurance industry event. The event will be officially hosted by the Bahrain Insurance Association with the support of the Central Bank of Bahrain The Central Bank of Bahrain was established in 1973 as the Bahrain Monetary Agency, shortly after Bahrain gained its independence from the United Kingdom. As per Decree No. . The Economic Development Board, represented by Bahrain Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Development, is the event's strategic partner. The conference is also sponsored at varying levels by renowned international and regional insurance and reinsurance The contract made between an insurance company and a third party to protect the insurance company from losses. The contract provides for the third party to pay for the loss sustained by the insurance company when the company makes a payment on the original contract. organisations as well as financial institutions. Gaif Steering Committee chairman Sameer Al Wazzan and Bahrain Insurance Association chairman Ashraf Bseisu revealed the event's speakers. "We would urge all professionals in the Arab insurance market to exploit this opportunity and benefit from the profound insight our expert line-up of panelists will bring to the Gaif conference," Mr Al Wazzan said. "The interactive nature of the debates will offer an inter-disciplinary perspective on challenges facing Arab insurance markets, while also creating an essentially integrated vision among participants with regards to proposed solutions to overcoming these obstacles." In tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" tandem with the conference theme 'Towards A More Integrated Arab Insurance Market', the first debate, in Arabic, will be entitled 'Are regional underwriting pools the way forward for integrating Arab insurance markets?', and will be moderated by Joseph Zakhour of Joseph Zakhour and Company, Beirut. Panelists for the first debate include Arab Reinsurance Company (Beirut) deputy general manager Tayseer Treky; Al Wathba Al Wathba (Arabic: الوثبة) is an Syrian football club based in Homs, Syria. National Insurance (Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (ä`b  thä`bē, zä–, dä–), Arab. Abu Zabi, sheikhdom (1995 pop. 928,360), c. ) general manager Bassam Chilmeran; Guy Carpenter
(London) managing director Salah El-Kadiri; Egypt Re (Cairo) former
chairman Gamal Hamza; National General Insurance (Dubai) General Manager
Dr Abdul Zahra Ali and General Reinsurance Services (Beirut) chief
executive Georges Zeineh.
The second day's debate, in English, will be entitled 'Proliferation of new insurance companies across the Arab markets is inhibiting consolidation through mergers and acquisitions'. This will be moderated by UIB UIB Universitat de Les Illes Balears UIB Universitetet I Bergen (University of Bergen) UIB Quibdo, Colombia (Airport Code) UIB Unemployment Insurance Benefit(s) (Dubai) chief executive George Kabban. Panelists include: Munich Re (Munich) chief executive, Middle East & Africa Andreas Molck-Ude, Arabia Insurance (Beirut) chief executive Fady Shammas; AON Middle East (Bahrain) chairman and chief executive Latif AlRayes,; AIG AIG addressee indicator group (US DoD) AIG American International Group, Inc AiG Answers in Genesis (religious group in defense of Scripture) AIG Artificial Intelligence Group AIG Australian Industry Group MEMSA MEMSA Missouri Emergency Medical Services Association (Dubai) president Middle East, Mediterranean & South Asia Charles Bouloux; dar Mousa (Riyadh) president Mousa Al Rubaian, and Chedid Re (Beirut) managing director Farid Chedid. "We are striving to deliver a more creative and intellectually challenging content by replacing lectures with more stimulating debates; thereby, encouraging more active delegate participation," Gaif Steering Committee member in charge of 'Themes and Topics' Yassir Albaharna said. "To that end, we have also introduced an essay competition to foster greater scholarly research and provoke innovative solutions to common industry issues. "I am confident that the insurance markets' key players will find the content to be more appealing than before." business@gdn.com.bh Copyright [c] 2008 Gulf Daily News Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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