AHMED RAJAB

Ahmed Rajab founder of SHIELDS Reinsurance Brokers, a fully independent reinsurance broker based in Dubai and London and admitted broker at Lloyd’s of London SHIELDS aims at delivering the highest standards of Facultative and Treaty reinsurance as well as Analytics specialised in reinsurance spending optimisation and catastrophe risk modelling. Ahmed is Board Member of the DIFC Insurance Association promoting Reinsurance and helping in growing the reinsurance market in Dubai. Ahmed has been prominent speaker at many conferences across the region and authored articles in the insurance / reinsurance press. Before starting SHIELDS, Ahmed Rajab was CEO of AON Benfield MENA operation overseeing treaty and facultative reinsurance in the region. He was responsible in developing the strategy and leading Aon Benfield ‘s Treaty and Fac teams dedicated to the region based in London and Dubai. He restructured the team and setup the operation in Dubai in charge of the region.   Before working for AON Benfield, Ahmed was at Willis as regional director MENA from 2002 to 2012 establishing Willis Re team in Dubai. Prior to that he was a treaty underwriter at SOREMA in Paris looking after the Middle East.