Euro-prize open to young risk managers
The European risk association FERMA is inviting young risk managers to take part in the inaugural Edwin Meyer Award – a chance to win €2500 plus a free place at the association’s annual seminar in Malta on October 2-3.
The award, which is set to become a bi-ennial event, will go to the best article of 2,500 words on a topical subject. This year the chosen topic is “Today’s risk managers are tomorrow’s risk leaders”.
To qualify entrants must either be under thirty or have no more than three years’ experience as a risk manager. The deadline is June 30. The winner is expected to accept the prize in person at the seminar, with FERMA contributing up to €1,000 towards travel and hotel expenses.
The Award is something that Airmic deputy CEO and technical director Julia Graham championed during her period as FERMA President, and she is urging eligible fastTrack members to take part. “It is a hugely important subject to Airmic in general, but especially to our younger members. I have no doubt that the exercise will be stimulating and worthwhile in its own right, and it would be great to see a fastTracker take the prize,” she said.
More details can be found on the FERMA website http://www.ferma.eu/
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The award is in memory of Edwin Mayer,a FERMA Board member and Secretary General until his death in February 2015. He also served as a board member of the German risk management association DVS, was a member of the Dutch risk management association NARIM. Chairman of the Insurance Committee of the Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl in Germany, a member of the board of the Insurance Committee of the German Industry Association (BDI) and a member of M 200. An engineer by education, Edwin started his career with the Industrial Risk Insurers in the USA where he subsequently became Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He then joined insurance brokers Sedgwick in the Netherlands, with responsibility for their European risk management services strategy, moving later to Germany, with responsibility for the Sedgwick Global Client segment. Returning to the insurer side of the business, he became country manager for St Paul International Insurance Company in the Netherlands. A move to insurance broker Marsh followed, where he was responsible for the firm's global client risk management practice in the Netherlands, before joining After a varied career as an engineer and insurance broker, he joined ArcelorMittal in 2005. |