Microfinance Focus, Nov. 16, 2009: As part of the Asia Insurance Industry Awards 2009, Prof. David Dror, Chairman of the Micro Insurance Academy (MIA), New Delhi has been honoured as “Personality of the Year” at a ceremony organized recently by the Asia Insurance Review in Singapore, “for his groundbreaking research and study which has helped boost understanding of how the world’s poorest communities can benefit from microinsurance”.
Professor Dror was given the award for his “tremendous, groundbreaking and visionary” contribution in the field of microinsurance research in India and Asia, said a statement.
During the annual ceremony which brings together the most prominent personalities and innovative companies in the mainstream of insurance and reinsurance worldwide, Prof. Dror was praised for a decade of dedication “to studying and designing innovative ways of boosting the acceptance of insurance in some of the world’s poorest communities.”
Prof. Dror is a proponent of micro health insurance with his conceptual framework on ways to link grassroots poor communities with reinsurance, called “Social Re”, described in “Social Re Insurance: A New Approach to Sustainable Community Health Financing, published in 2002 by the International Labour Organization and the World Bank. Over the last few years, Prof. Dror has published some 60 articles and was associated with the Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), The French Centre of Studies and Research on the International Development, (CERDI), Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Prof. Dror is currently the founding chairman of MIA, specialising on microinsurance units in resource-poor communities. Asia Insurance Review is a professional regional magazine for insurance and re-insurance practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region.Related Posts:

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