Ekhosuehi Iyahen is the Secretary General of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), a Public-Private Partnership led by the insurance industry and supported by the World Bank Group, the United Nations, and other international organisations, aiming to enhance the use of insurance to build greater resilience against disasters and help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Global 2030 Agenda. She was directly involved in establishing various pioneering initiatives, including the Tripartite Agreement (IDF/United Nations Development Programme/Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development [BMZ]); the Global Risk Modelling Alliance and the joint establishment of the Global Resilience Index Initiative.
Ekhosuehi is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Harvard University. She was a 2018 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Resident Practitioner Fellow. In 2020, she was identified by Leader’s magazine as one of 100 global resilience thought leaders. In 2021, she was appointed as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center. She is also a member of the Climate Impacts Advisory Committee of the Wellcome Trust.
