Thursday, 22 September 2011
Jorge Luzzi elected President of Ferma
Jorge Luzzi, Group Risk Management Director for Pirelli worldwide, has been elected as the next president of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (Ferma).
Jorge Luzzi, Group Risk Management Director for Pirelli worldwide, has been elected as the next president of Ferma
Ferma has also elected Michel Dennery, Deputy Chief Risk Officer at GDF SUEZ, as Vice President with a two-year mandate until June 2013. Julia Graham, Chief Risk Officer for the global law firm DLA Piper, continues as the other vice president until June 2012.
Mr Luzzi’s mandate as president will start at the end of the association’s forum on 5 October 2011, when current president Peter den Dekker steps down, and will continue until the end of the following forum in 2013.
He is currently Vice President of Ferma, Chair of the International Federation of Risk and Insurance Management Associations (IFRIMA), Honorary President of the Latin American risk management association Alarys and an active member of the Italian risk management association ANRA.
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He has had a wide-ranging career in insurance and risk management. As well as being Group Risk Management Director for Pirelli worldwide he is also Executive Director of Pirelli Insurance and Reinsurance Company in Dublin, Ireland, and Managing Director of Pirelli Group Reinsurance in Switzerland.
“I am delighted to be able to take forward the work of Ferma, which now represents the interests of risk managers in 19 countries with our new members from Malta and Slovenia. I would like to pay tribute to the work of Peter den Dekker who has played such an important role in increasing Ferma’s stature and profile in his two years as president,” said Mr Luzzi.
Mr Den Dekker, who will preside over the 2011 Ferma Forum in Stockholm from 2–5 October, congratulated Mr Luzzi on his election: “I am delighted to be handing over to Jorge who has already done a great deal to raise Ferma’s standing on the international stage.”
On the election of the new vice president Mr Den Dekker said: “Michel Dennery is strengthening Ferma’s role as a voice for the European risk management community, especially with his work for Ferma on corporate governance and risk issues, and I welcome his election as Ferma Vice President.”
Mr Dennery is already a member of the board of Ferma and the French risk management association Amrae. With a civil engineer background, he has headed the risk management department of GDF SUEZ since 2006.
Miss Graham is a member of the board of Ferma and a member and past chair of the UK risk management association Airmic.
She is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute, a Chartered Insurer and a Member of the Institute of Risk Management. Miss Graham is the nominated UK expert on the new ISO working group for ISO 31004, a ‘companion guide’ to ISO 31000.
The full board of Ferma now consists of Peter den Dekker (President—Narim), Jorge Luzzi (President elect—Anra), Julia Graham (Vice President—Airmic), Michel Dennery (Vice President elect—Amrae), Helle Friberg (Darim), Carl Leeman (Belrim), Cristina Martinez (Igrea), Igor Mikhaylov (RusRisk), Günter Schlicht (DVS/BfV) and Arnout van der Veer (Airmic-Narim).
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