HE Yousef Kamal has been Minister of Finance of the State of Qatar since January 2002. He became Acting Minister of Economy and Commerce, and Chairman of the Qatar Financial Centre Authority, in March 2006.
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He was Minister of Finance, Economy and Commerce from January 1998 until the Ministry of Economy and Commerce was established in 2002. He is Chairman of the Doha Securities Market, Chairman of Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas, Deputy Chairman of Qatar Petroleum, a Director of Qatar Telecommunications, and a Director of Qatar Central Bank. He heads several local, regional and Arab committees. He was Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Finance, Economy and Commerce from 1993-98, and Director of Financial Affairs in the Ministry of Finance and Petroleum from 1988-93.
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As Chief Executive Officer and Director-general of the Qatar Financial Centre Authority (QFCA), Stuart Pearce drives the commercial strategy of the QFCA, which aims to attract international financial services institutions and major multi-national corporations to share in a long-term and mutually beneficial partnership with Qatar.
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Prior to his current appointment, Mr Pearce had a long and successful career in international banking and financial services with HSBC, which he joined in 1974. As an international executive for the Group he held a range of positions in the Middle East, Asia and the US, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Hong Kong. His roles over this time included Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Private Banking Europe and Middle East in 1992, Chief Executive and Country Manager at HSBC Japan in 1997, Head of Corporate Banking in the UK in 2001, Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Investment Management in 2002 and Chairman of the International Bankers Association in Japan, as well as member of the board of HSBC Securities and the British Chamber of Commerce.
Mr Pearce retired from HSBC in May 2005 and joined the QFCA in July of that year.
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Lord Peter Levene was elected Chairman of Lloyd’s in November 2002. He had spent 20 years in the Defence Industry before being asked to take on the Permanent Secretary post of Chief of Defence Procurement in the Ministry of Defence, a post which he held for 6 years. Subsequently, he held a number of Government posts and was Adviser to the Prime Minister on Efficiency and Effectiveness from 1992 to 1997. He also served as Chairman of the Docklands Light Railway and subsequently as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Canary Wharf Limited.
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He served as Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank, having previously been Chairman of Bankers Trust International and Senior Adviser at Morgan Stanley.
In addition to the Chairmanship of Lloyd’s, he is presently Chairman of General Dynamics UK Limited and a member of the Board of TOTAL SA, Haymarket Group and China Construction Bank.
He is an Alderman of the City of London and served as Lord Mayor for the year 1998/99. He received a knighthood in 1989 and became a life Peer in 1997.
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After graduating from Oxford, Alex spent 15 years working in the international advertising sector. SMI Group which he founded in 1988 went on to become the largest business advertising agency in Europe, specialising in technology clients and pioneering web-based communications. SMI was bought by Groupe Publicis in 1997 where Alex served as Worldwide President and CEO of Publicis Technology.
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Alex founded RI3K in May 2000 to build an electronic trading exchange for the insurance sector. In May 2007 a consortium led by Michael Spencer of ICAP and the hedge fund Eton Park took majority control of RI3K. RI3K employs about 70 staff and has a network of more than 170 companies trading on its service.
Alex is married with 4 children and lives in London.
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Kai-Uwe Schanz is Chairman & Principal Partner of Dr. Schanz, Alms & Company (www.schanz-consulting.com), a Zurich/Switzerland-based strategy and communications advisory firm focusing on the financial services industry. In addition, Dr. Schanz is Chairman of The Geneva Association’s Chief Communication Officers Network. He studied International Economics in Germany and Switzerland and obtained a Ph.D. from the University of St. Gallen.
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From 2004 to 2007 Dr. Schanz served as Chief Communication & Corporate Development Officer at Converium. From 1995 to 2004 he worked for Swiss Re, performing various senior management roles such as Chief Economist Asia-Pacific, based in Hong Kong, and Global Head of Communications Content and Strategic Issues Management.
In 2003 Dr. Schanz was appointed Research Fellow at the China Center for Insurance and Social Security Research at Beijing University. In 2005 he received the Geneva Association / International Insurance Society Research Award. Dr. Schanz is also a Member of the Board of Governors of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, Singapore.
His record of publications includes leading newspapers such as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as well as the relevant trade press in Europe, Asia, the US and Latin America. Dr. Schanz was also quoted by The Economist and The Financial Times.
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Phillip Thorpe is a New Zealander. He first practiced as a barrister and solicitor in Wellington. He moved in 1981 to Hong Kong, where he held various senior posts with the Hong Kong Securities Commission. Following the market crash in October 1987 he was appointed as CEO of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange.
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Phillip Thorpe moved to the United Kingdom in 1989 as CEO of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers, later becoming an Executive Director of the Securities and Futures Authority. In 1991 he was seconded to the London Commodity Exchange ("London Fox") as CEO. He subsequently assisted the Securities and Investments Board in a review of the UK regulatory system. In 1993 Phillip Thorpe was appointed Chief Executive of IMRO, the organisation responsible for the regulation of the investment management industry in the United Kingdom. Following the 1997 general election Phillip Thorpe was appointed as a Managing Director of the newly formed Financial Services Authority (FSA). The FSA is responsible for the regulation of all insurance, banking, securities and investment business in the United Kingdom.
In August 2001 Phillip Thorpe took up a new appointment as President of the Futures Industry Institute, based in Washington, D.C. The Institute is a not-for-profit organisation providing a wide range of data services, statements of best practice and training and examination services to the financial services industry.
In August 2002 Phillip Thorpe was recruited to establish a new regulatory body in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. In his role as Chief Executive Officer, Phillip Thorpe put together a team of regulators to take this work forward. He oversaw the construction of the legal framework and the regulatory processes leading to the launch of the Dubai Financial Services Authority in October 2004.
In March 2005 Phillip Thorpe took up the post of Chairman and Chief Executive of the QFC Regulatory Authority. The Authority provides an integrated regulatory regime for Qatar's new centre for financial services. The Qatar Financial Centre evidences global best practices and provides facilities for businesses to participate in the rapidly growing Qatari economy.
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Born in Belfast , Northern Ireland 1961, Dermot P Dick went on to gain a Law Degree at the University of Exeter before embarking on a sixteen year career with General Accident Group ( now Aviva ) leaving as Senior Manager Marine & Energy , London Market.
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This was followed by five years in Lloyds as Deputy Syndicate underwriter and Marine Underwriter of Syndicate 1243 and now to his current role at QIC Group Doha as Executive Vice President , QIC International LLC- responsible for the International Underwriting Unit based in the QFC in Doha, Where an extensive book of Facultative and Treaty reinsurance is written for the Arab World, Africa and Asia. He is also responsible for the Outwards Reinsurance Protections on the QIC Group.
Alex is married with 4 children and lives in London.
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Wayne Jones is a partner with Clyde & Co and is a recognised specialist in the GCC region for insurance and reinsurance work. Wayne also has extensive knowledge of the London and European markets.
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He has a broad regional practice advising local and foreign insurance interests on a wide range of matters, including an increasing amount of GCC regulatory work, including in the DIFC and QFC. Wayne is a frequent speaker at regional insurance market events and a regular contributor to industry publications. He is described as a “fine reinsurance lawyer” by Legal 500.
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Andreas Molck-Ude, 44, was born in Munich, Germany and subsequently grew up in Tokyo, Japan (1968 – 1975) and Johannesburg, South Africa (1975 – 1982). After completing Munich Re’s trainee programme in 1986, he started his career as an underwriter in Munich Re’s marine department. Following stages abroad in Norway (1987) and London (1989) he took over the responsibility for Munich Re’s marine business emanating from London, Scandinavia and Africa.
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In this capacity, he was responsible for building up Munich Re’s marine excess of loss and Protection & Indemnity business. In 1997 he was appointed as Deputy Member of the Executive Management and was responsible for the purchase of Lloyd’s Syndicate 457 (Lloyd’s Watkins) which has since developed to become the leading marine syndicate within Lloyd’s. In 1999 he became Head of Marine Department and was appointed as Member of the Executive Management. Since July, 2001, he is responsible as Chief Executive for Munich Re’s Middle East and African business.
In his leisure time he enjoys mountaineering, mountain biking and skiing as well as listening to audiophile music.
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Paul is a director at EMB, the world’s leading actuarial and business consultancy firm concentrating on non-life insurance.
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He specialises in advising on insurance and reinsurance in the GCC (reinsurance optimisation, treaty and individual risk pricing, capital modelling, business planning, claims reserving and presenting to rating agencies). He is authorised in Bahrain as a registered actuary, in Bermuda as a Loss Reserve Specialist and to sign actuarial opinions for Lloyd’s syndicates in the UK.
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Osama is responsible for all AIG local operations in the Arabian Region carrying out general insurance activities.
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Osama has a degree in Law and is an ACII from UK.
He joined AIG in 1999 as a Branch Manager of UAE and subsequently became the General Manager of the AIG-UAE operations. He then assumed responsibility for the Energy and Casualty profit centre for the Arabian Region following which Osama became part of the Middle East, Mediterranean and South Asia Regional Team as Regional Vice President for Casualty Lines.
Osama has been instrumental in establishing and leading our operations in the Arabian Countries.
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Dr Mahmoud Khater has more than 20 years of engineering experience in natural hazards probabilistic risk assessment and risk management in the insurance, financial, industrial and commercial sectors.
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His experience includes structures and lifelines reliability under natural hazard severe conditions.
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Shaun moved into captive management when he moved to Guernsey in 1995 and joined Willis in 2000, before joining the Heritage Group in 2006. With over 20 years of insurance experience having previously worked as a Professional Indemnity underwriter and a broker in the UK, Shaun has overseen the management of several Blue Chip client companies with structured, global corporate programmes.
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Shaun is one of the founding management team members who are expanding the Heritage operations into the Middle East. Previously Shaun was their Director responsible for Business Development across Europe and Bermuda. Shaun specialises in the design and implementation of structured programmes utilising reinsurance capacity and a range of non-conventional means of security, and the development of bespoke insurance solutions.
Shaun has a BSc (Hons) in Financial Services and is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.
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Clive Thursby’s role at A.M. Best is to expand its rating coverage in central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and in the captive insurance sector. He has been responsible for introducing Best’s ratings to several countries.
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Clive joined A.M. Best Europe in 2001. He has extensive international experience of insurance market and risk management practice. Prior to joining A.M. Best, he was head of insurance supervision at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority and previously had a variety of consulting roles with KPMG, Marsh and Tillinghast. His early career was in corporate finance and treasury functions in the City of London. Clive is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and is a Fellow and past Governor of the Institute of Risk Management. He is a regular speaker and writer on risk topics.
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Jim is a Civil Engineer with over 30 years professional experience in port, maritime and major civil engineering projects executed in New Zealand, Australia, S.E. Asia, the Middle East and the United Kingdom.
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His extensive experience encompasses all aspects of major projects and includes: advising Clients on appropriate forms of contract; options for contract insurance e.g. Owner Controlled Insurance Packages, for both consultancy and contractor services; risk management; and project delivery from inception to commissioning and handover.
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Before joining Swiss Reinsurance Company, Robert Wiest worked in the semiconductor and food industry.
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In 1995 he joined Swiss Re as an Engineering underwriter and subsequently held various positions in underwriting. Thereafter he was responsible for the special lines department in Swiss Re Italy before he was appointed as Head of the Swiftre and eSolutions Unit. He was although responsible for various projects for Swiss Re. He is currently Business Unit Head for Western and Southern Europe, Middle East and Turkey, being responsible for our Life and Non-Life reinsurance business.
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HE Yousef Hussain Kamal
Stuart Pearce 
The Lord Levene of Portsoken KBE
Alex Letts
Dr. Kai-Uwe Schanz
Mr Phillip Thorpe
Dermot P Dick
Wayne Jones
Andreas Molck-Ude
Paul Murray
Osama Abdeen
Dr. Mahmoud Khater
Shaun Brook
Clive Thursby
Jim Bell
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Bernardo Gogna
