Lockton Dubai Names Dawes Specialist Financial Lines Broker

April 28, 2011

Lockton in Dubai announced the appointment of Neil Dawes as a specialist financial lines broker providing (re)insurance and risk management expertise to clients in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

He has more than “24 years of experience in insurance for financial lines business,” said the bulletin. “In his previous role he focused on Bankers Blanket Bond, Computer Crime, Professional Indemnity, Credit Card Fraud, Stockbrokers Indemnity and Directors and Officers Liability business for Middle East, South East Asia and Turkish clients.”

Lockton MENA Chief Executive Officer Wael Khatib welcomed Dawes to the company, noting that Lockton Dubai’s expanding client service team has “doubled in size over the last 12 months, mirroring the pace of growth in the MENA region and subsequent demand for advice and solutions to complex risks.

“As the number of jurisdictions in which global corporations operate rises, including the MENA region, there is increasing boardroom concern about the liability exposures executives face” he added. “By focusing on all financial institutions accounts from the very largest to some of the world’s smallest banks and stockbrokers, Neil will deepen our strategic risk management and service offering to MENA clients.”

Lockton noted that it “now provides a holistic insurance and risk management service to MENA clients across a range of disciplines, including but not limited to: Facultative and Treaty Reinsurance, Engineering & Terrorism, Casualty, all Financial Institutions, Energy & Marine, and Property & Specie.”

Source: Lockton

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