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As part of the Asia Insurance Industry Awards 2009, Prof. Dr. David Dror took the honor of “Personality of the Year”… “for his groundbreaking research and study which has helped boost understanding of how the world’s poorest communities can benefit from microinsurance”.

This year’s winners were announced in a ceremony organized by the Asia Insurance Review in Singapore. Professor Dror won this prestigious award for his “tremendous, groundbreaking and visionary” contribution in the field of microinsurance research in India, Asia, and worldwide. He was recognized by the Judging Panel as “one of the world’s most foremost experts in the field of microinsurance.”

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.”

Photo caption: Prof. Dr. Dror receiving the award from Mr Derek Raper, General Manager of ReMark (Singapore), and congratulated by the MIA team upon his return to New Delhi.

Prof. Dror is an internationally recognized authority in micro health insurance, whose reputation was initially gained through the conceptual framework he developed on ways to link grassroots poor communities with reinsurance (a concept he called “Social Re“), described in the seminal volume Social Re Insurance: A New Approach to Sustainable Community Health Financing (edited with A. Preker; published in 2002 by the International Labour Organization and the World Bank). Over the last few years, Prof. Dror published some 60 articles published in regional and international peer-reviewed journals. Dr. David Dror is also Hon. Professor of health insurance at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and Visiting Professor of health economics at the French Centre of Studies and Research on the International Development, (CERDI), Clermont-Ferrand, (France). His accomplishments were lauded by the judging panel (composed of 29 Asian and international industry leaders (Commissioners, CEOs of the leading companies, and heads of national and international insurance federations) for its “visionary method of combining the beauty of being small with the necessity of pooling big.”

Prof. Dror is the Chairman of the Micro Insurance Academy (MIA), founded in 2007 in New Delhi (India). As founding Chairman of MIA, he leads the only research and training organisation fully dedicated to supporting the launch and operation of microinsurance units in resource-poor communities - a unique and first-in-its-kind initiative in the development sector.

The awarding body, the Asia Insurance Review, is the premier and most comprehensive professional regional magazine for insurance and re-insurance practitioners, with a growing readership base well beyond the Asia-Pacific region.

For details contact:

Prof. Dr. David Dror:

Chairman@mia.org.in  (Publications: http://ssrn.com/author=183410)

Micro Insurance Academy:

Francesco Obino francesco@mia.org.in, Phone: +91 11 43799100

Asia Insurance Review:

http://www.asiainsurancereview.com/pages/awards/awardswinners2009.asp#14