The UN Environment Programme’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative (PSI), is hosting an event that will amplify sustainability action and ambition for the life & health insurance industry in this UN Decade of Action. The event will be hosted by Vitality, a PSI signatory company, and will run from 10:00 to 13:00 BST on Wednesday, 21 June 2023. In-person participation is by invitation only.  The event will be livestreamed on the UNEP FI YouTube channel.

In a post-COVID world increasingly impacted by climate change, nature loss, social inequality and the cost of living crisis, this event will feature the launch of a timely paper, “Health is our greatest wealth: How life & health insurers can drive better health outcomes and address the protection gap”. This paper is a collaborative effort by the PSI’s Life & Health Working Group—comprising 10 leading insurers and reinsurers from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America—co-led by HSBC Life and the UN, and supported by Ernst & Young LLP.

The programme will also include a CEO panel discussion, bringing together leading companies’ CEOs and other senior representatives from the insurance industry, in an engaging high-level panel discussion on the key sustainability challenges and opportunities for life & health insurers.

For any questions, please contact psi@unepfi.org.

Time (BST)
10:00-10:15 Welcome remarks

  • Butch Bacani, Programme Lead, UNEP Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative
  • Mark Tucker, Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings
  • Adrian Gore, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Discovery
10:15-10:20 Keynote on the importance of facilitating a more preventative healthcare model and closing the protection gap

  • Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, WHO
10:20-11:25 Launch of “Health is our greatest wealth: How life & health insurers can drive better health outcomes and address the protection gap”

This session will include a presentation of the paper (10 mins), followed by a panel discussion (45 mins) and a Q&A (10 mins)

Presentation: Teresa Fung, Head of Sustainability, Global Insurance, HSBC

Panel participants: 

  • Samia Hachicha Charfi, Head of Individual Health, AXA Group Risk Management
  • Kabari Bhattacharya, EMEIA Sustainable Finance Insurance Leader, Ernst & Young LLP
  • Moira Gill, Associate Vice President, Government and Industry Relations, TD Insurance
  • Deepak Jobanputra, Chief Sustainability Officer, Vitality
  • Butch Bacani, Programme Lead, UNEP Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative (Moderator)
11:25-11:45 Break
11:45-12:55 How can life & health insurers amplify the sustainability agenda in the UN Decade of Action?

This panel will be a high-level discussion on the challenges and future opportunities for life & health insurers, drawing on learnings from the paper and diving into the role that CEOs can play.

Panel participants:

  • Rebecca Lea, Senior Policy Advisor, Prudential Regulation, ABI
  • Alex Perry, CEO, BUPA UK
  • Adrita Bhattacharya-Craven, Director Health & Ageing, The Geneva Association
  • Edward Moncreiffe, CEO, HSBC Insurance (Asia) and HSBC Life (International)
  • Damien Bartlett, CEO for EMEA & Canada L&H, SCOR
  • Neville Koopowitz, CEO, Vitality UK
  • Butch Bacani, Programme Lead, UNEP Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative  (Moderator)
12:55-13:00 Closing remarks

  • Diana Diaz, Programme Supervisor, UNEP Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative
13:00-14:00 Lunch

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