Doubell Chamberlain (Cenfri), Chair of the Board (2017-2018); Board member (2015-2018).
Doubell has extensive global experience in microinsurance as the founder and Managing Director of Cenfri. His work has lead him to a deeper understanding of the demand for and supply of microinsurance products within a broader financial sector context and the impact that policy, regulation and supervision has on market development. His vision for the sector is to build an inclusive insurance industry that aligns the incentives of multiple-stakeholders to offers value and play its role in supporting poverty relief and economic development.

Andrea Keenan (AM Best), Vice-Chair of the Board (2015-2018).
Andrea Keenan has 19 years of experience in the insurance industry at the only global ratings agency that specialises in insurance, AM Best. She started there as an economist and country risk analyst, as well as head of research, criteria, training and ratings relations. From 2013-2015, Andrea was on assignment to launch AM Best's first emerging market subsidiary in Mexico City and focused on microinsurance research in the Latin American region.  She is currently Senior Managing Director of Industry Relations. Andrea envisions that the sector will evolve to one that brings the low-income populations into the global financial system for a mutually beneficial outcome for all the stakeholders of financial and economic stability.

Lorenzo Chan (Pioneer Life Incorporated), Board member (2017-2018).
Lorenzo is the President and CEO of Pioneer Life and Retail Organization and Head of the Pioneer Group in the Philippines. As a practitioner and leader, his dream is to empower the low-income sector by providing them access to insurance and the benefits it offers. He remains passionate about continuing innovations in insurance to enable more people and markets to experience its benefits. Lorenzo envisions a world where insurance will one day be among the top commodities of each household; that across socio-eco classes, it will be relevant and appreciated not only for its cost but for the value it brings and the continuity it provides during life's setbacks.

Alejandra Diaz Agudelo (Fasecolda), Board member (2015-2018).
Alejandra has extensive experience in designing and implementing strategies for the development of microinsurance markets as well as agricultural insurance, financial education and social responsibility programmes. With regards to the Network, she is committed to the idea of creating a regional body to periodically discuss best practices and lessons learned in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Alejandra also promotes the dissemination of social performance indicators among providers in the region, as well as the development of a code of best practices for consumer protection, in order to achieve effective and meaningful financial inclusion.

Denis Garand (Denis Garand & Associates), Board member and Treasurer of the Microinsurance Network (2015-2018).
Denis has long-term experience as an actuary in the insurance and microinsurance sectors, and brings a wealth of expertise on mutuals and cooperatives. His current focus for the Board is finding ways to increase sharing of information amongst all actors in the microinsurance field to ensure the development of a sound sector whilst minimising duplication of efforts. He will also be focussing on the informal and cooperative insurance sectors so as to increase their participation in the Microinsurance Network. 

Kate McKee (Partnership for Economic Inclusion), Board member (2017-2018).
Kate is leading the start-up of the Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI), a World Bank-hosted initiative to accelerate scaling up, innovation and systems change for the “graduation approach” and other targeted interventions that expand economic opportunities for extreme poor and vulnerable people. Previously, she led CGAP’s work on consumer protection, responsible finance and graduation. Kate is an economist with broad policy, practitioner, and donor experience in enterprise development, women’s empowerment, agriculture and finance, through leadership roles at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US Treasury Department, Self-Help in North Carolina, and the Ford Foundation.

Francesco Rispoli (IFAD), Board member (2015-2018).
Francesco is a Senior Technical Advisor on Rural Finance at the International Fund for Agricultural Development where he has been leading the organisation’s work on agricultural insurance, and has been responsible for setting up the IFAD-WFP Weather Risk Management Facility (WRMF), which is the first UN partnership on the subject. Francesco has broad technical experience in risk management and agricultural insurance, including index insurance, and his focus for the Network is to encourage cost-effective public-private partnerships in agricultural insurance that increase the resilience of rural households as part of their broader agricultural risk management strategy.

Mandla Shezi (Hollard), Board member and Secretary of the Microinsurance Network (2015-2018).
Mandla is CEO of Hollard International, having previously been Managing Director of Hollard Affinities and Direct, since 2007. He has significant experience in insurance and microinsurance. His focus for the Network is the development and roll-out of viable low-cost distribution methods across Africa and Asia. Mandla is very passionate about driving access to affordable insurance products for the poor and finding systemic insurance solutions that cover poor communities against natural disasters. He chairs the Financial Inclusion Megatrend Forum for Hollard.

Mathilda Ström (BIMA), Board member (2017-2018).
Mathilda is a co-founder of BIMA and has been responsible for driving the growth of the business into 16 countries across Africa, Latin America and Asia. Her work has given her a tremendous breadth of experience across a wide variety of regulatory environments, detailed distribution and operational expertise on how to build a sustainable and profitable microinsurance business, an understanding of the interplay between mobile technology and the provision of financial services and a closeness to the communities and customers that are buying insurance cover for the first time.