Advisory group

The ILO's Microinsurance Innovation Facility relies on the guidance of an Advisory Group consisting of high profile experts from areas that are crucial for the development of microinsurance. The Advisory Group members participate in their personal capacity and on a voluntary basis. They are called upon to advise the Facility on specific strategic and technical issues related to their areas of expertise.

Dr. Tilman Ehrbeck	Area of Expertise: Health insurance
	Dr. Tilman Ehrbeck, a German national, is a Partner of Global Management Consulting Firm McKinsey & Company, currently based in Washington, DC. Over the last decade, he has served clients in the private, public, and social sectors on issues of strategy & growth, organizational effectiveness, and performance improvement. His industry focus is on financial services and health care. Between 2005 and 2009, Tilman built out McKinsey's Healthcare Payor and Provider Practice in India. He has published and delivered keynote speeches at industry conferences on topics related to financial inclusion, health insurance for poor households in the informal economy, and business model innovations at the base of the economic pyramid. Prior to McKinsey, he was a staff economist at the International Monetary Fund working on Africa. Tilman hold a Ph.D. in economics from the European University Institute, a post-graduate reserach institute sponsored by the European Union, and a Bachelor degree from the University of Hamburg.
Don Canning	Area of Expertise: Insurance technology, particularly software
	Don Canning is the managing director for Microsoft's insurance industry team. He is responsible for the worldwide strategy, investments, alliances with leading solutions vendors and systems integrators, sales enablement, marketing, and product team integration related to Microsoft's efforts aimed at insurance industry customers. Don is a member of the senior management team for Microsoft's Worldwide Financial Services industry group. Prior to Microsoft, Mr Canning worked at Prudential Financial as a senior IT executive and CTO of Institutional and Group Insurance, reporting to the chief operating officer and executive vice preside of information assets. Mr Canning is a frequent op-ed contributor to Windows in Financial Services, an industry trade publication that follows technology developments of interest to large banking, insurance, and capital markets customers globally.
Arup Chatterjee	Area of Expertise: Insurance and microinsurance regulations
	Since February 2005, Arup Chatterjee has served as the Principal Administrator of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), the international standards-setting organisation for insurance regulation and supervision. At the IAIS, Mr Chatterjee's current areas of focus are microinsurance, takaful insurance, supervisory cooperation and information exchange, and self-assessment and peer review. He is responsible for managing the secretariat of the IAIS-Microinsurance Network Joint Working Group and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Access to Insurance Initiative. Mr Chatterjee began his insurance career in 1988 in India where he worked for a public sector nonlife insurer. In 1997, he was seconded to the Indian Ministry of Finance, then joined the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority in India in 2000. As a Joint Director, he was associated in developing the concept paper which ultimately resulted in the drafting of the Indian microinsurance regulation in 2005. Arup has a BA from the University of Delhi, an MA in International Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, a Masters in International Business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and a Postgraduate Diploma in Life Insurance and Pensions Regulations from Monash University.
David De Ferranti	Area of Expertise: Health Insurance
	David de Ferranti is President of the Results for Development (R4D) Institute, a Washington-based not-for-profit focusing on developing countries. R4D combines idea generation (e.g., policy research) with catalytic action (e.g., piloting innovative policy options on the ground), particularly in health, governance, education, and creative finance for small and medium enterprise development. Mr de Ferranti has over thirty years of experience in leadership and management roles in the public and private sector, chiefly on international development and, earlier, U.S. public policy. Before founding R4D, he was at the World Bank for over two decades, where, as part of its top management team, he headed up programs aiding African, Asian, and Latin American countries. In addition, he has been a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Senior Advisor at the United Nations Foundation, an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, an advisor to Carlos Slim and his infrastructure investment group in Latin America, and an advisor to an emerging high-tech enterprise. He has also held management positions in the U.S. government. He holds a BA from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
Ulrich Hess	Area of Expertise: Agriculture/Index Insurance
	Mr Ulrich Hess is a Senior Economist working on innovative financing at the World Bank's Concessional Finance and Global Partnerships Vice Presidency. He was seconded to the World Food Progamme (WFP) as Chief of Risk Reduction and Disaster Mitigation Policy from 2006 to 2009, where he produced WFP's new disaster risk reduction strategy, as well as innovative risk financing instruments in China, Ethiopia and other countries. Previously, he started the World Bank Group's work on weather risk management, assisting successful weather risk financing initiatives in India in 2003 and Malawi and Ethiopia in 2005. Mr Hess co-authored "Managing Agricultural Production Risk" (World Bank 2005) co-edited "Index Insurance and Climate Risk" (Columbia University, New York, USA 2009) and has written numerous articles on risk management. Mr Hess holds a Master in Economics degree from Bocconi University, Milan and a Master in Political Science degree from Freie Universität, Berlin. He also studied at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and Yale Law School.
Christian Jacquier	Area of Expertise: Social Protection
	Christian Jacquier, a French national, is the Chief of Country Operations and Technical Cooperation for the ILO's Social Security Department. He is particularly involved in the coordination of the one-UN global initiative on "the Social protection Floor". Mr Jacquier has worked for the ILO for more than thirty years in the fields of social economy (cooperatives and mutual insurance) and social security. For ten years, he coordinated the ILO/STEP (Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty) global programme, which has been one of the pioneers of microinsurance. He has worked in Bolivia, Peru, West Africa, New York, and Geneva. Mr Jacquier holds a Ph.D in applied mathematics from Grenoble University and is an agronomist from the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Agronomie (ENSA) in France.
Steve Rasmussen	Area of Expertise: Microfinance Technology
	Stephen Rasmussen is Senior Microfinance Advisor and Manager of the Technology Program with CGAP, a global microfinance resource center based in Washington DC. He is also responsible for CGAP's work in the South Asia Region. From 2004-2008 he was the World Bank's microfinance resource person for South Asia as well as the International Finance Corporation's nominee Director on the boards of two microfinance banks. From 2001-2008 he was CEO of the Pakistan Microfinance Network. From 1994-2003 he headed up the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, a large rural development program in northern Pakistan, where he also helped establish First MicroFinanceBank, the first microfinance bank in Pakistan. Although Mr Rasmussen now works globally, for the past twenty-five years his work was focused in South and Central Asia.