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Ekhosuehi Iyahen
Secretary General at the Insurance Development Forum
Ekhosuehi Iyahen is the Secretary General of the Insurance Development Forum. She has extensive experience working with public and private stakeholders on public financial management, strengthening risk management and financing systems, and the role of insurance. She has been directly involved in establishing and operationalising a number of initiatives including regional risk pools in Africa, the Caribbean, and the structuring of a novel tripartite agreement between the IDF, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to increase insurance protection in 20 climate-exposed countries. Ekhosuehi is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the University of the West Indies. In 2018, she was selected as Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Resident Practitioner Fellow and in 2020 was identified by Leader’s magazine as one of 100 global resilience thought leaders.