You might
not be aware of this, but apparently, if you work in insurance, you are
the new “cool kid” in the world of international development.
That's
because access to insurance was featured in the four major sustainable
development agreements that the United Nations concluded last year, and
development experts are waking up to the possibilities of insurance and
are eager to learn more, said Quentin Coolen, a U.N. official who now
hangs out with the cool insurance kids on the block.
Long
seen as burdensome or simply irrelevant, insurance now is being viewed
as a tool to help the world's poor deal with issues such as catastrophe
risk and climate change, and the experts who fashion and use those tools
are in demand.
Source: Businessinsurance.com
