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2015/FMP/SEM1/002

Speakers’ Biographies

Submitted by: Philippines

Seminar on Disaster Risk Finance – APEC Roadmap for Resilient Economies

Bacolod, Philippines29-30 April 2015

DISASTER RISK FINANCE – APEC ROADMAP FOR RESILIENT ECONOMIES 29-30 April 2015

Function Hall 1, SMX Convention Center 3rd Level of SM City Bacolod North Wing

Bacolod City, Philippines

Hosted by: The Philippine Government

Jointly organized by:

Department of Finance, Republic of the Philippines APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC)

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

In cooperation with: Asia-Pacific Financial Forum (APFF)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit - Regulatory Framework Promotion of Pro-poor Insurance Markets in Asia (GIZ - RFPI Asia)

Microinsurance Network Barnert Global, Ltd. Tokio Marine Group

WELCOME AND OPENING SESSION

Hon, Emmanuel F. Dooc, Insurance Commissioner, Republic of the Philippines

(TBC)

Atty. Emmanuel F. Dooc took his oath of office as Acting Insurance

Commissioner on January 5, 2011. As the first appointee of President

Benigno S. Aquino III to the post of Insurance Commissioner he held the

office until the passage of Rep. Act. No. 10607, otherwise known as the

Revised Insurance Code of 2012, which provides a 6-year fixed term of

office to the Insurance Commissioner. Commissioner Dooc tendered his

resignation to give the President a free hand to appoint a new Insurance

Commissioner under the new Insurance Code but the President instead

reappointed Commissioner Dooc for a fresh term of six (6) years under

the new Code on December 4, 2013.

During his term, the Insurance Commission had seen unprecedented

growth of the Insurance Industry, particularly the life sector; The total

assets have increased from P554.7 billion to P1.1 trillion, more or less in

2014. From P80.3 billion total premium income in 2009, it rose to P203.8

billion in 2013. The Insurance Penetration or premium volume as a share

of GDP increased from 1.02% in 2009 to 1.77% in 2013. The capital

build-up program was successfully carried out and institutionalized in the

Amended Insurance Code which further increased the minimum net worth

to P1.3 billion in 2022 with scheduled gradual increases every 3 years

between 2013 and 2022. The recent years also saw mergers and

consolidation of smaller companies as well as voluntary and involuntary

cancellation of licenses. The Insurance Commission was reorganized to

further streamline its operations and make IC an efficient and effective

regulator. Three (3) additional Deputy Commissioners were appointed

and the total number of headcounts at the IC was significantly increased

to enable IC to discharge its functions particularly the additional

responsibility of supervising the pre-need industry following its transfer

from the SEC to the IC. The IC with the support of the industry introduced

other much needed reforms to grow the industry without sacrificing the

interests of the insuring public.

With his appointment, Commissioner Dooc and his team have already

formulated the banner program for the coming years. They include the

review and rationalization of the tax structure for the non-life sector,

eventual transfer of the HMO from the Department of Health to the IC,

capacity building of the regulator, expansion of Microinsurance program,

promotion of financial inclusion, development of disaster insurance, crop

insurance and health insurance and effective implementation of the

Amended Insurance Code among others, to better serve the public and

the industry. From its own funds, the Insurance Commission will be the

first government agency to build and own its own Head Office building in

Bonifacio Global City which is expected to be completed 3-4 years from

now.

Commissioner Dooc earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Education in Mabini

Colleges, Bachelor of Laws from San Beda and Teaching the Blind

(Graduate Degree) from the Philippine Normal University. He is a Fellow

of Life Office Management (US), Master Fellow in Life Office

Management (US), Associate in Claims (International Claims Association),

and Fellow of Institute of Corporate Directors. He also completed

Strategic Management Program in the College of Insurance, New York,

and Executive Management Program for Senior Government Officials in

John F. Kennedy School of Government in Harvard.

Prior to his appointment as the Insurance Commissioner, he served the

private sector in various capacities which included: Senior Vice President,

General Counsel, Chief Compliance and Governance Officer of the

Philam Group of Companies, Vice President for Claims of the American

International Assurance in Hong Kong and South East Asia, Tax Lawyer

of SGV and practicing lawyer.

His term of office shall expire on December 4, 2019.

Dr. Julius Caesar Parreñas, Senior Advisor, ABAC Delegate to APEC FMP and

Senior Advisor, Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.

Julius Caesar Parreñas is Senior Advisor at Nomura. He coordinates the

Advisory Group on APEC Financial System Capacity Building, the Asia-Pacific

Financial Forum and the Asia-Pacific Infrastructure Partnership. Previous

positions include Advisor on International Affairs of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi

UFJ, Senior Advisor to Chinatrust Financial Holding Co., Ltd, Executive Director

of the Center for Research and Communication, Executive Director of the AFTA

Advisory Commission, and professor at the University of Asia and the Pacific. He

has a Ph.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Munich and authored over

100 publications on international finance and economics.

LinkedIn Profile: http://jp.linkedin.com/pub/julius-caesar-parre%C3%B1as/6/530/348

Mr. Arup Chatterjee, Principal Financial Sector Specialist, Asian Development

Bank

Responsible for leading financial sector development initiatives in the area of

insurance, private pensions and contractual savings, and financial inclusion. His

technical assistance and program development of international financial

standards and supervisory capacity building, base of the pyramid opportunities

and consumer protection.

Chair ADB Working Group on Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance.

Acting as ADB Focal Point for Financial Inclusion.

Source: https://ph.linkedin.com/pub/arup-chatterjee/7/71b/739

SESSION 1: THE MICROINSURANCE LANDSCAPE IN APEC

Mr. Michael McCord, President, Microinsurance Center and Chair, Microinsurance

Network

Michael combines experience as controller of a US commercial bank, CEO of a

MFI in Uganda, Regional Director for microfinance programs in Africa, and since

2000, Founder and President of the MicroInsurance Centre, to provide a depth

of knowledge on developing and managing microinsurance products. His

specializations include institutional development for microinsurance, new

product development, and assessment and analysis of microinsurance

programs. Michael also specializes in trainings; he has provided microinsurance

training to over 1,600 people across the global and is a highly sought speaker at

international forums.

Michael has written extensively on microinsurance – including as a multiple

contributor to "Protecting the Poor, A Microinsurance Compendium" and as

co-author of "Making Insurance Work for Microfinance", as well as "The

Landscape of Microinsurance in the World’s 100 Poorest Countries". Michael is

the author of numerous microinsurance case studies and other documents to

facilitate partnership relationships in microinsurance. He is also the author of

several other documents and manuals on subjects as varied as pilot testing,

rollout, and the feedback loop for microfinance institutions, MFI accounting and

analysis, and the function of laws.

Sources: http://www.microinsurancecentre.org/about/who-we-are/staff.html

Mr. Moch. Muchlasin, Director, Directorate of Shaira Non Bank Financial

Institutions, Indonesia Financial Services Authority (OJK).

Moch. Muchlasin graduated from the Universitas Indonesia with a Bachelor of

Economics degree in Accounting. He studied management and employment

relation in School of Industrial Relations and Organisation Behaviour (IROB) at

the University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Sydney, Australia and completed

his Master of Commerce degree in 2004.

He worked in Directorate General of Financial Institutions – Ministry of Finance

on various roles as analyst, examiner and enforcement officer between 1994

and 2006 prior to the establishment of Capital Market and Financial Institutions

Supervisory Agency (BapepamLK) in 2006. He has been involved in

government guarantee scheme project (2004-2005) that lead to the

establishment of Indonesian Deposit Insurance Corporation (IDIC) in 2005. He

also involves on drafting process of OJK Law in 2006-2011 and member of

ctransition team for the establishment of Indonesia Financial Services Authority

(OJK) in 2011-2012.

He is currently Director of Sharia Non-Bank Financial Institutions, Indonesia

Financial Services Authority. Since 2013, he also chaired Microinsurance

Development Taskforce, an adhoc unit under Indonesia FSA, with main task to

lead coordinating projects between OJK, insurance and takaful associations and

international development agencies to support macroinsurance development in

this archipelago.

SESSION 2: PUSHING THE FRONTIERS OF MICROINSURANCE

Ms. Veronique Faber, Executive Director, Microinsurance Network

Provides strategic and executive leadership to the team with a view to grow and

strengthen the Microinsurance Network outreach, impact and value to the sector,

drawing upon her wide experience working in the microinsurance field and her

flexible management style.

Source: http://www.microinsurancenetwork.org/who-we-are

Mr. Arup Chatterjee, Principal Financial Sector Specialist, Asian Development

Bank

Responsible for leading financial sector development initiatives in the area of

insurance, private pensions and contractual savings, and financial inclusion. His

technical assistance and program development of international financial

standards and supervisory capacity building, base of the pyramid opportunities

and consumer protection.

Chair ADB Working Group on Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance.

Acting as ADB Focal Point for Financial Inclusion.

Source: https://ph.linkedin.com/pub/arup-chatterjee/7/71b/739

Mr. William Martirez, Country Manager, MicroEnsure Philippines

William joined MicroEnsure Philippines with 13 years working experience in life

insurance and 17 years working with non-life insurance products in the

Philippines market. William also has extensive experience over 38 years in the

not-for-profit and microfinance sectors.

In his last role before joining MicroEnsure William managed and supervised

TSKI’s micro insurance and microfinance agriculture program, as well as other

micro services programs including Nutritional Laboratory, Electronic Livelihood

Program, Shell Solar Electricity Program, K Pharmacy and Kauswagan Village.

William is a renowned authority on micro insurance in the Philippines and was a

member of the team that designed innovative Micro Insurance Products such as

weather index insurance for typhoon & drought, micro housing, health, life,

funeral & personal accident.

Source: http://www.microensure.com/resources-aboutus-leadership.asp

Mr. Jonathan Batangan, General Manager, Cebuana Lhuillier Insurance Solutions

SESSION 3: THE ROLE OF MICROINSURANCE IN RESPONDING TO CALAMITIES

Mr. Arup Chatterjee, Principal Financial Sector Specialist, Asian Development

Bank

Responsible for leading financial sector development initiatives in the area of

insurance, private pensions and contractual savings, and financial inclusion. His

technical assistance and program development of international financial

standards and supervisory capacity building, base of the pyramid opportunities

and consumer protection.

Chair ADB Working Group on Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance.

Acting as ADB Focal Point for Financial Inclusion.

Source: https://ph.linkedin.com/pub/arup-chatterjee/7/71b/739

Mr. Michael F. Rellosa, Chairman and Trustee, Philippine Insurers and Reinsurers

Association

Mr. Dante Oliver Portula, Senior Advisor, Regional Policy, GIZ-RFPI

Dante Oliver Portula Senior Advisor- Regional Policy, RFPI Asia Deutsche

Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Mr. Portula has

been working closely with the Department of Finance, the lnsurance

Commission and other financial regulators in the Philippines for more than five

years. His support to these government agencies led to the development of

microinsurance regulatory framework and the microinsurance national strategy,

including the establishment of a roadmap to financial literacy on microinsurance

and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for microinsurance. Currently,

Portula collaborates with various Philippine associations of insurance

companies and the MFls in developing innovative Microinsurance products and

on setting up risk-based capital framework and microinsurance perforrnance

standards. As senior advisor in GIZ, with more than 18 years of microfinance

experience in countries in Southeast Asia , Portula also handles policy

engagements in Nepal, Indonesia and Mongolia on inclusive insurance market

development with insurance supervisors and insurance associations . Portula

has intensive experience in public and private stakeholders' collaboration. His

recent training is on Stakeholders' Dialogue from the Collective Leadership

Institute (CLI), Germany.

http://inclusiveinsuranceasia.com/docs/Conference%20Report_Microtakaful%20Confer

ence_FINAL.pdf

Mr. Graham A.N. Wright, Group Managing Director, MicroSave (or Manoj Sharma,

Managing Director – Asia-Pacific, MicroSave)

the founder and Group Managing Director of MicroSave, pioneered much of the

market-led approach practised by MicroSave. He has over 30 years of

experience working with banks, MFIs, telecoms, MNOs, regulators and

international funding agencies in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan,

the Philippines, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania

and Zambia. He also oversees our work in the areas of Digital Financial

Services; Training; Knowledge Management; Research; and Responsible

Finance. During his time as the head of MicroSave in Africa, he spearheaded

work to transform both Equity Bank and Kenya Post Office Savings Bank, and

collaborated in the design and initial testing of M-PESA. He now heads several

teams working on digital financial services solutions for banks, mobile network

operators and MFIs in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Source: http://www.microsave.net/teams/management/graham_a_n_wright

SESSION 4: PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE WAY FORWARD FOR

MICROINSURANCE IN THE CEBU ACTION PLAN

Mr. Joselito S. Almario, Director, Department of Finance, Republic of the

Philippines and Deputy Executive Director, National Credit Council (NCC)

Mr. Joselito S. Almario is a Director of the Department of Finance and

concurrently holds the position of Deputy Executive Director of the National

Credit Council (NCC), a body composed of both government and private sector

representatives tasked with creating an enabling credit policy environment,

including microfinance, in the Philippines. As NCC Deputy Executive Director, Mr.

Almario was instrumental in the formulation and development of the Philippine

National Strategy and Regulatory Framework for Microfinance in the Philippines.

He likewise headed the various technical working groups that crafted and

finalized the performance standards for cooperatives engaged in savings and

credit operations and more recently, the Performance Standards for

Microfinance Institutions. Mr. Almario also sits, among others, in the Board of the

People’s Credit and Finance Corporation, the main wholesaler of funds for MFIs;

the Cooperative Development Authority, and the Agricultural Credit and Policy

Council (ACPC) and acts as the government’s focal person in the

implementation of the ADB-assisted Microfinance Development Program in the

Philippines. He is currently working on the Manual of Rules and Regulations for

Savings and Credit Cooperatives and the necessary measures, including the

passage of the enabling laws, for the effective supervision and examination of

credit cooperatives.

Source: http://www.bwtp.org/asiamicrofinance/SpeakerBios.html

Mr. Dante Oliver Portula, Senior Advisor, Regional Policy, GIZ-RFPI

Dante Oliver Portula Senior Advisor- Regional Policy, RFPI Asia Deutsche

Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Mr. Portula has

been working closely with the Department of Finance, the lnsurance

Commission and other financial regulators in the Philippines for more than five

years. His support to these government agencies led to the development of

microinsurance regulatory framework and the microinsurance national strategy,

including the establishment of a roadmap to financial literacy on microinsurance

and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for microinsurance. Currently,

Portula collaborates with various Philippine associations of insurance

companies and the MFls in developing innovative Microinsurance products and

on setting up risk-based capital framework and microinsurance perforrnance

standards. As senior advisor in GIZ, with more than 18 years of microfinance

experience in countries in Southeast Asia, Portula also handles policy

engagements in Nepal, Indonesia and Mongolia on inclusive insurance market

development with insurance supervisors and insurance associations . Portula

has intensive experience in public and private stakeholders' collaboration. His

recent training is on Stakeholders' Dialogue from the Collective Leadership

Institute (CLI), Germany.

http://inclusiveinsuranceasia.com/docs/Conference%20Report_Microtakaful%20Confer

ence_FINAL.pdf

Mr. Jaime Aristotle Alip, Founder and Managing Director, CARD Mutually

Reinforcing Institutions

Dr. Jaime Aristotle B. Alip is the Founder and Managing Director of the for

Agriculture and Rural Development Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD

MRI), the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service. Started in 1986,

CARD MRI is a group of mutually reinforcing institutions composed of the CARD

NGO, CARD Bank, CARD Mutual Benefit Association, CARD MRI Development

Institute, CARD Business Development Service Foundation Inc., CARD MRI

Insurance Agency, Rural Bank of Sto. Tomas, Inc. (now the CARD- SME Bank)

and the CARD MRI Information Technology Inc. As of February 2011, CARD

MRI has a total outreach of more than 1.3 million poor women clients with a total

outstanding loan of more than P5.1 Billion. Total asset of CARD MRI is more

than P9.7 Billion with a total staff complement of 6,079. Under CARD MBA

microinsurance activities, CARD has insured more than 6.4 million individuals.

Under Dr. Alip’s leadership CARD MRI was also awarded the Prize for

Excellence in Community Economic Development by the Southern New

Hampshire University in 2007; People Power People Recognition Award by

Former President Corazon C. Aquino in 2005; the Global Excellence for

Microfinance by the Grameen Foundation, USA in 2003; and the Flame of

Excellence Award given by USAID and The Microfinance Coalition for Standards

of the Philippines in 2000.

Dr. Alip received the Medal of Honor from the Vietnam Women’s Union in 1995

for his work in microcredit for poor women in Vietnam. He was also given the

Secretary’s Award of the Department of Agrarian Reform, Philippine

Government in 1998 for his contribution in agrarian reform program. Ernst and

Young recognized him as the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2006; received the

Ten Outstanding San Pableños Award from the local government and the

People of San Pablo City, Laguna in July 2008; and the most Distinguished

Alumnus Award from the University of the Philippines in 2007. He is also the

2007 Most Outstanding Alumnus of UPLB, the University of the Philippine’s

agriculture campus. Dr. Alip has been elected as a member of the International

Board of Directors of Oikocredit and sits as an adviser in Grameen Foundation,

USA. He was the President and Chairman Emeritus of RIMANSI, a regional

based association that promotes microinsurance among MFI players in Asia

region. He has been recently appointed as the Senior Advisor on Microfinance of

the Population and Community Development Association in Thailand.

Dr. Alip is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School having completed the

3-year Owner/President Management (OPM) Program in 2007 and was given

the Excellence Award on Strategy by his peers. He obtained his doctorate

degree in Organizational Development from the Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary

Development Institute (SAIDI), Manila, Philippines in 2002. He received his

bachelor and master’s degrees in agricultural economics/marketing from the

University of the Philippines at Los Baños in 1978 and 1983, respectively. He

also attended the Executive Program in Global Management at the

Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University,

Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A. in 1999. He graduated from high school at the Ateneo

de San Pablo in 1973 and in December 2008, he received the Most Outstanding

Alumnus of Ateneo de San Pablo given by the Ateneo de San Pablo Alumni

Association.

Dr. Alip has served in various key positions in the Philippine Government:

Undersecretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development

(2002-2003); Assistant Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform

(1996-1998); and Deputy Executive Director of the Agricultural Credit Policy

Council (1988-1992). He has extensive international experience in the field of

microfinance and rural development in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, China,

Myanmar, Bhutan, East Timor and Indonesia serving in various capacities as

advisor, expert and/or consultant.

Source: http://www.apraca-centrab.org/board-of-trustees/jaime-aristotle-b-alip/Asdf

Mr. Denis Garand, Board Member, Microinsurance Network

Denis Garand is an Actuary working in microinsurance part time since 2001. He

has extensive experience in business planning, product development and

pricing, having worked on many projects in over 14 countries. In addition he

continues to consult to Canada insurance companies on all aspects of group

insurance. Denis is Chair of the performance indicator subgroup and a member

of the Health subgroup. Denis has been an active participant in micro insurance

development having worked with many organizations; he is currently on the ILO

innovation steering group. Denis has worked for 20 years with a Canadian

Co-operative insurer, prior to becoming a consultant, having achieved his

actuarial designation in 1987.

Source:http://www.microinsurancenetwork.org/denis-garand-denis-garand-associatesA

sdf

Mr. Douglas Barnett, President, Barnet Global

Mr. Douglas Wm. Barnert serves as president of Barnert Associates, Inc. and

Barnert Global Ltd. Mr. Barnert is publisher of The Barnert Reports(TM), a

monthly commentary on accounting, investment, and other insurance regulatory

issues. He has been a Director of Electric Insurance Company since March 3,

2008. He serves as also the executive director of the Group of North American

Insurance Enterprises and is a regular participant in the activities of the

International Association of Insurance Supervisors. He regularly attends

meetings of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), its Standards

Advisory Council, and the Insurance Working Group, an advisory group to the

IASB on international accounting standards for insurance contracts.

Source:

http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=42082583&pr

ivcapId=4217039&previousCapId=3777514&previousTitle=Boston%2520CollegeAsdf

SESSION 5: DISASTER RISK FINANCE: OVERVIEW OF CURRENT SITUATION

AND INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES

Ms. Stella C. Laureano, Director III, International Finance Group, Department of

Finance, Republic of the Philippines

Mr. Leigh Wolfrom, Policy Analyst, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs,

OECD

Dr. Marqueza Cathalina Lepana Reyes, Technical Advisor on Disaster Reduction,

ASEAN-UNISDR Technical Cooperation on HFA Implementation

Working as ASEAN Technical Advisor for Disaster Risk Reduction for the past

five years, providing guidance and technical support in strategic policy

development in disaster risk management as well as responsible for the

developing, implementing and mobilizing resources for programmes and

projects on disaster risk financing and insurance, disaster risk assessment,

science-based disaster risk reduction, mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in

development and sectoral planning such as risk-sensitive land use planning, and

resilient recovery. Core competencies in policy analysis and development,

project development and implementation in the areas of disaster preparedness,

mitigation, and prevention, land use planning, urban and regional planning, and

environmental management, further honed by experience in the field for more

than 20 years. Marqueza received her doctorate degree in urban planning minor

in disaster risk reduction (magna cum laude) at the University of Kassel in

Germany. She finished her master’s degree in urban and regional planning and

bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of the Philippines. She is also a

published author of a book titled “Risk-Sensitive Land Use Planning: Towards

Reduced Earthquake Disaster Vulnerability,” peerreviewed articles on disaster

vulnerability and risk in various journals, and editor of numerous international

conference proceedings.

Source:

http://www.recoveryplatform.org/jp/pdf/IRP%20public%20forums_report.pdfAsdf

Mr. Giovanni Ganelli, Senior Economist, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

(OAP), International Monetary Fund

is a Senior Economist in the IMF's Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (OAP)

in Tokyo. Giovanni has worked for the Fund since 2003. Before joining OAP, he

also worked in the IMF Institute and in the European and Fiscal Affairs

Departments at the Fund Headquarters in Washington DC. He is currently a

member of the IMF Japan Article IV team and, during his IMF career, Giovanni

as participated in program, surveillance, and capacity building missions to

various countries, including Albania, Austria, China, Czech Republic, Georgia,

India, Mauritius, Moldova, Singapore and Slovenia. Giovanni has a PhD in

Economics from the University of Warwick and an undergraduate degree in

Economics and Statistics from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". His

research has been published in various academic journals (including the Journal

of International Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics and the Journal of

Economic Dynamics and Control) and focuses on the effects of fiscal policy in

New Keynesian models and, more recently, on structural reforms in Japan.

Source: https://www.imf.org/external/np/cv/AuthorCV.aspx?AuthID=115

Mr. Masaaki Nagamura, Division Head, Corporate Social Responsibility,

Corporate Planning Department, Tokio Marine and Nichido Fire Insurance Co.,

Ltd.

Mr. Masaaki Nagamura has been Division Head of Corporate Social

Responsibility, Corporate Planning Department at both Tokio Marine Holdings,

Inc. and Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., since August 2011.

Prior to assuming the current position, he was involved in international insurance

regulatory issues, between 2004 and 2011, as Manager in charge of

international issues at Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire’s Corporate Planning

Department. Between 1997 and 2004, he was stationed in the U.S. as an

insurance account executive serving commercial clients in the U.S. Midwest. He

joined Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance in April 1986, after graduating from

Waseda University.

Source:

http://www.unepfi.org/grt/2013/speakers/masaaki-nagamura-division-head-corporate-

social-responsibility-general-manager-corporate-planning/

SESSION 6: INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR DISASTER RISK MITIGATION

AND ADAPTATION

Mr. Romeo F. Fajardo, Director III, Deputy Administrator, Office of Civil Defence,

National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC),

Philippines

A graduate of the Philippine Military Academy Class of 1979 and retired as

Brigadier General from the Philippine Army in May 2011. He is not new to

disaster risk reduction management. His experience includes exposure in what

were then disaster relief and rehabilitation operations or DRRO.

He was involved in Disaster Risk Reduction Management throughout his military

career particularly as Battalion Commander and Brigade Commander in the

Philippine Army. From 2007 to 2008, he was the Commander of the Disaster

Response Task Group of the National Capital Region Command, AFP.

He was also assigned as Adviser to the Permanent Representation of the

Republic of the Philippines to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical

Weapons of the United Nations, in The Hague, The Netherlands from 2002 to

2004.

He has trained in Improvised Explosive Devices at the State Department in the

USA in 1987 and finished the Special Investigations Course at the Special

Investigations Academy of the US Air Force in Washington, DC, in 1991. In

2006, he graduated from the Special Military SCUBA Diving course at the

Special Forces School, Special Operations Command of the Philippine Army.

In 2008, he participated in a seminar on Crisis Management by the Australian

government. He finished his Master’s Degree in National Security

Administration at the National Defense College of the Philippines in 2005.

The Civil Defense Deputy Administrator, Brigadier General Romeo Floralde

Fajardo.

Mr. Josie Vidal, Principal Advisor, Office of the Chief Executive, New Zealand

Earthquake Commission

Give strategic advice to the Chief Executive on issues and risks. Completed

Australia and New Zealand School of Government Leadership in Times of Crisis

course in Canberra, Australia.

Spoke at UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction – March 2015 –

How can the insurance industry’s wealth of knowledge better serve social

resilience.

Source: https://nz.linkedin.com/pub/josie-vidal/4/139/96

Mr. Jimmy Loro, Senior Adviser, GIZ-RFPI

Jimmy Loro has been working with international and local development

organizations in the Philippines for more than a decade. As senior adviser and

lead expert for the German International Cooperation’s (GIZ) Remote

Sensing-based Information and Insurance for Crops in Emerging Economies

Project, he currently manages the development of area-based yield-index

insurance for irrigated rice in Nueva Ecija, Leyte and the Caraga region.

Loro engages international rice and agriculture research institutes and

organizations to maximize remote sensing technology for information and

insurance purposes. He also consults with rice farmers on field to develop

products, policies and strategies that lessen the complexities of crop insurance,

as well as bridge remote sensing technology with grass-roots knowledge.

Prior to joining GIZ in 2010, he oversaw the Australian Agency for International

Development’s funding agreement with UNICEF, U.N. Population Fund, U.N.

Development Program, World Health Organization, and the Guttmacher Institute,

to meet Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on reducing maternal and child

deaths, advance reproductive health research and advocacy, and promote HIV

and AIDS prevention.

In 2006, under the UNDP Achieving the MDGs and Reducing Human Poverty

Portfolio, he worked with national and local government units to implement

initiatives that contributed to ancestral domain titling for targeted indigenous

peoples, provision of microfinance services to unleash entrepreneurship, and

prevention of HIV and AIDS in selected areas.

His first break in development work came in 2003, when he managed the

Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Program (Working Together for Poverty

Reduction) and UNDP projects in the Visayas region for the National

Anti-Poverty Commission. He also handled the implementation of initiatives for

the Philippines’ peace agreement with an armed group operating in Panay and

Negros islands.

Source: http://manila40.devex.com/loro/

Ms. Do Thuy Duong, Non-life Division, Insurance Supervisory Authority, Ministry

of Finance, Vietnam

SESSION 7: POTENTIAL REGIONAL INITIATIVES TO SUPPORT DRF:

PROMOTING RISK POOLING AND DATA AVAILABILITY

Mr. Masaaki Nagamura, Division Head, Corporate Social Responsibility,

Corporate Planning Department, TOkio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

Mr. Masaaki Nagamura has been Division Head of Corporate Social

Responsibility, Corporate Planning Department at both Tokio Marine Holdings,

Inc. and Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., since August 2011.

Prior to assuming the current position, he was involved in international insurance

regulatory issues, between 2004 and 2011, as Manager in charge of

international issues at Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire’s Corporate Planning

Department. Between 1997 and 2004, he was stationed in the U.S. as an

insurance account executive serving commercial clients in the U.S. Midwest. He

joined Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance in April 1986, after graduating from

Waseda University.

Source:

http://www.unepfi.org/grt/2013/speakers/masaaki-nagamura-division-head-corporate-

social-responsibility-general-manager-corporate-planning/

Mr. Richard Poulter, Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Specialist, World

Bank

Dr. Apoory Dabral, Manager Research and Modeling, AIR Worldwide

Mr. Jaumil Achyar Situmeang, Director of the Center Data Base, National

Meteorological and Geological Service of Indonesia (BKMG)

SESSION 8: PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE WAY FORWARD FOR DISASTER RISK

FINANCE IN THE CEBU ACTION PLAN

Mr. Romeo F. Fajardo, Director III, Deputy Administrator, Office of Civil Defence,

National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC),

Philippines

A graduate of the Philippine Military Academy Class of 1979 and retired as

Brigadier General from the Philippine Army in May 2011. He is not new to

disaster risk reduction management. His experience includes exposure in what

were then disaster relief and rehabilitation operations or DRRO.

He was involved in Disaster Risk Reduction Management throughout his military

career particularly as Battalion Commander and Brigade Commander in the

Philippine Army. From 2007 to 2008, he was the Commander of the Disaster

Response Task Group of the National Capital Region Command, AFP.

He was also assigned as Adviser to the Permanent Representation of the

Republic of the Philippines to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical

Weapons of the United Nations, in The Hague, The Netherlands from 2002 to

2004.

He has trained in Improvised Explosive Devices at the State Department in the

USA in 1987 and finished the Special Investigations Course at the Special

Investigations Academy of the US Air Force in Washington, DC, in 1991. In

2006, he graduated from the Special Military SCUBA Diving course at the

Special Forces School, Special Operations Command of the Philippine Army.

In 2008, he participated in a seminar on Crisis Management by the Australian

government. He finished his Master’s Degree in National Security

Administration at the National Defense College of the Philippines in 2005.

The Civil Defense Deputy Administrator, Brigadier General Romeo Floralde

Fajardo.

Mr. Richard Poulter, Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Specialist, World

Bank

Mr. Augusto Hidalgo, President and CEO, The National Reinsunrance Corporation

of the Philippines

Ms. Evangeline Escobillo, Secretary General, Association of Insurance

Supervisory Authorities of Developing Countries

CLOSING SESSION

Hon. Gil Beltran, Undersecretary of Finance, Republic of the Philippines (TBC)

Undersecretary Gil S. Beltran has been an Undersecretary of DOF since 2005,

working on a variety of areas including fiscal policy, human resource and

operations management, economic policy and research, and financial inclusion

policies and strategies. He has been Executive Director of the National Credit

Council since 1998.

Mr. Beltran graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Development Economics

in 1982 as class valedictorian from Williams College, Williamstown,

Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree in economics cum laude in 1978 from

the University of the Philippines.

He is also a Visiting Lecturer, University of the Philippines College of Public

Administration from 2006 to the present and the Development Academy of the

Philippines since 2010.

He has held various posts at the World Bank as Alternate Executive Director

from January 2003 to January 2005; and Advisor to Executive Director, from

February to May 1995 and August to November 1990.