Gorazd Čibej, LL.M, has been Managing Director of the Insurance Supervision Agency of Slovenia (AZN) since January 2018 and since November 2017, he has also been the President of the Council of Experts of AZN. He is a member of the Board of Supervisors of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and has also been appointed a member of the Supervisory Steering Committee and a substitute member of the Mediation Panel. He is a Regional Co-ordinator for the CEET region within the Executive Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS). Since 2019 he has also been a member of the Council of Securities Market Agency of Slovenia.

He graduated cum laude from the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana in 2000 and he holds a Master's Degree in European Law (LL.M) from Lund University, Sweden, which he attained in 2001. Later in 2016 he completed the Certified International Business Negotiation Programme at the Mitchell Hamline University, USA and in 2017 he participated in advanced training in the field of Corporate Governance at the Harvard University, USA.

Gorazd is a regular speaker at insurance conferences and webinars at home and abroad.

Professor Karel Van Hulle lectures in the economics and business faculty of the KU Leuven and in the economics faculty of the Goethe University in Frankfurt where he is attached to the International Centre for Insurance Regulation. He is a member of the Public Interest Oversight Board and of the Board of the Bermuda Monetary Authority.

He retired from the European Commission in 2013, where he was head of insurance and pensions.

Professor Van Hulle is a lawyer by training. He studied law at the KU Leuven and at the Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee.

In 2013, he was nominated distinguished fellow of the IAIS and in 2014 he was elected honorary fellow of the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

Frank is founder and partner of New Insurance Business (Switzerland), a consulting company that offers strategic and tactical business and management consulting for insurance companies and their cooperation partners. The focus of his work is set on innovation, new business strategy as well as cooperation management.

Frank is a regular speaker and moderator at events, seminars and workshops throughout the financial service industry. Before he started his career as consultant in 2015, he worked in different roles within European life insurance industry for about eleven years.

Marko Jazbec took up the leadership of Sava Re in May 2017. He has years of experience in senior and top management positions, notably at the Bank of Slovenia; SKB banka, d.d.; Droga Kolinska, d.d.; Intereuropa, d.d.; NLB, d.d.; and Hoteli Bernardin, d.d. Until mid-July 2016, he headed up Slovenian Sovereign Holding, d.d. During his career, Marko has gained valuable experience in the corporate governance of banks and other companies, and significant expertise in asset management, risk management, treasury finance, corporate finance and corporate banking.

Marko holds a degree in economics from the University of Ljubljana.

Boris is Chief Executive Officer of Adacta Group, a leading software provider for the insurance industry.

After graduating summa cum laude from the Faculty of Economics, University of Banja Luka, Boris started his career at the Insurance Agency of Republika Srpska. Spending five years with the regulator, he performed on-site and off-site supervision, as well as participated in the legislation drafting and actuarial analyses of insurance companies.

In 2016, Boris moved to Adacta Group, a privately-owned core insurance solution vendor, with more than 300 insurance and software experts across six countries. He started his new role as Business Analyst, responsible for proper understanding and communication of the insurers’ requirements in software implementation process. Boris soon advanced to the position of Chief Product Officer, responsible for design and development of the latest version of Adacta’s flagship product – AdInsure, an end-to-end platform for insurance companies.

At the beginning of 2020, Boris was appointed as a CEO of Adacta Group, responsible for managing overall operations and execution of high-level strategic decisions.

With his strong background in insurance, Boris, a certified actuary, often steps into the role of a trusted advisor when working with insurance market leaders in CEE.

Boris is also Chairman of the Board of “Nova Generacija”, non-profit charity organization focused at the implementation of programs for the protection of vulnerable groups, children, and young people.

Andrea M. Corcoran, founded Align International, LLC, www.aligninternational.com, bespoke consultancy services in 2008 following a public service career, where she served nationally as Director of two Divisions of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a companion organization to the Securities Exchange Commission, and internationally, as Chair of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Task Force on Implementation of the Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation which designed the original model Assessment Methodology used for securities market financial sector assessments conducted internationally per the G-20 post 2008 crisis Pittsburgh Declaration. She also chaired the IOSCO committee that developed early principles for oversight of screen-based derivatives trading, addressing the integrity of markets for derivatives used to hedge commodity and financial products. Recent activities included, terms as US observer to the market consultative panel of the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) the predecessor to ESMA; Chair, through 2017, of the Securities Advisory Board of the Toronto Centre, www.torontocentre.org, which delivers leadership and crisis management programs currently focussing on fintech, climate and governance to senior professionals of securities, banking and insurance supervisors; adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center; and public director for NYSE-liffe US and the US self-regulatory organisation for listed derivatives professionals, National Futures Association (NFA).

Ms. Corcoran has led a number of regulatory and supervisory policy responses to financial crises and innovation and adapted her experience to addressing global emerging risks to clients on five continents. Admitted to the Futures Hall of Fame in 2013, Ms. Corcoran received the highest awards for government executive service from US Presidents Reagan and Clinton respectively. Her degrees are from Stanford and Harvard.

Rom joined Agritask in early 2020 to lead and develop its Agricultural-Insurance Business. Rom is also an Academic Member of the Israeli Association of Actuaries and an Adjunct Lecturer in Financial Mathematical at the Bar-Ilan University, Israel. In addition, he regularly advises NGOs on disaster risk reduction and risk pool solutions.

Rom possesses wide-ranging expertise in the Reinsurance and Insurance-Linked-Securities (ILS) sectors comprising of analytics, origination, structuring, underwriting and portfolio management. Between 2017-2019, Rom was Managing Director and Head of ILS at IBI Investment House, a Tel Aviv based asset manager with AUM of USD12bn. In 2018, Rom was awarded the prestigious Young ILS Underwriter of the Year Award by Trading Risk in NYC. Between 2012 and 2016 Rom was an Executive Director and Head of Catastrophe Bonds at Twelve Capital in Zurich and London, an independent investment manager with AUM in excess of USD 4bn. Prior to this, Rom was a Research Associate at the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK, and between 2008-2011, Rom was a Senior Researcher in Stochastic and Actuarial Modeling at RiskLab, Switzerland.

Rom earned a PhD in Financial Mathematics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, holds a M.Sc. degree (Summa Cum Laude) and a B.Sc. degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University, Israel and is also a Certified Catastrophe Modeler (CCM) from AIR Worldwide.