Program & Presentations

09.00 – 09.30 
Registration and Welcome coffee

9.30 – 11.30
PART 1– ESG: regulatory and supervisory framework 

Introductory remarks from the Chair:
Karel van HULLE, Professor, KU Leuven - Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

KEYNOTE SPEECHES
Petra HIELKEMA, Chairperson, EIOPA
Read here the transcript of the Keynote Speech given by Petra HIELKEMA, Chairperson, EIOPA - Between fear and hope: a possibilist view on the role of insurance in combating climate change

Liane HIRNER, CFRO, Vienna Insurance Group, Austria
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PANEL OF DISCUSSION: regulation, supervision, operations – the meeting point

• Petra HIELKEMA, Chairperson, EIOPA
• Liane HIRNER, CFRO, Vienna Insurance Group, Austria
• Alexandru CIUNCAN, President & CEO, UNSAR - National Association of Insurance and Reinsurance Companies in Romania
• Michael BRANDSTETTER, EU & International Affairs, VVO – Austrian Insurance Association

LIVE INTERVIEW 

Helena VIÑES Fiestas, Commissioner of the Spanish Financial Markets Authority, Chair of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance 

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12.00 -14.00
PART 2 - ESG IN PRACTICE 

Klime POPOSKI, CEO, Winner-member of VIG & Professor at St. Kliment Ohridski University, North Macedonia
Sustainability and ESG regulatory landscape look in the CEET region
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Michaella KOLLER, Director General, Insurance Europe (video recorded message)
Focus on the role and contribution of the insurance sector, both as a provider of protection and major institutional investor
Offer a forward-looking perspective on what could be done next (ie also with a view to the next EC/EP mandate) to help address the current challenges faced
Video

Matti LEPPÄLÄ, Secretary General/CEO, PensionsEurope

Pension funds as providers of retirement income and as institutional investors
Reflections on the present situation and future outlook.

Morgane HILLEBRANDT, Senior Financial Analyst, AM Best, Netherlands
ESG best practices and strategies in insurers’ investments
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PANEL OF DISCUSSIONS: Investing in ESG

• Matti LEPPÄLÄ, Secretary General/CEO, PensionsEurope
• Andrea PORTA, Financial Analyst, AM Best, Netherlands
• Klime POPOSKI, CEO, Winner-member of VIG & Professor at St. Kliment Ohridski University, North Macedonia

14.00 – 15.00 Business Lunch

15.00 – 17.30
PART 3 - ESG and the insurance protection gap 

KEYNOTE SPEECH - Özgür OBALI, General Secretary, TSB - Insurance Association of Türkiye 
ESG in Turkish insurance
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Doris PÖPPLEIN, Sustainability Markets Lead, Swiss Re, Switzerland
Dr. Annina ANGSTMANN, Solutions Sales Director P&C, Swiss Re, Switzerland
The role of re/insurance in enhancing disaster risk resilience
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Leonardo MEOLI, Head of Sustainability Business Integration, GENERALI Group, Italy
"Doing well by doing good", Generali commitment to sustainability and boost “just transition” among European’s SMEs
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Menekşe UÇAROĞLU, CEO, IUC Group, Türkiye 
Reducing the protection gap in a hardening reinsurance market
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Tom JOHANSMEYER, Global Head of Index Classes, INVER Re, UK
Real ESG in reinsurance
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Sinisa LOVRINCEVIC, CEO, REIMPACT Re Insurance and Reinsurance Broker
Sustainable Governance for Reinsurance Underwriting Resilience
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PANEL OF DISCUSSIONS: Role of reinsurance in reducing the protection gap              

• Gerald KLEMENSICH, Head of Reinsurance Department, Vienna Insurance Group, Austria
• Nicoleta RADU, CEO, PAID Romania
• Leonardo MEOLI, Head of Sustainability Business Integration, GENERALI Group, Italy
• Menekşe UÇAROĞLU, CEO, IUC Group, Türkiye  

17.30 Conference conclusions