Secretary General, Insurance Development Forum (IDF)
Ekhosuehi has extensive experience working with Governments, international development agencies, private sector entities and academic institutions on public financial management and strengthening risk management and financing systems and the role of insurance.
She has been directly involved in establishing and operationalising a number of pioneering initiatives including regional risk pools in Africa, the Caribbean and the structuring of a novel tripartite agreement between the IDF, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)and the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to increase insurance protection in 20 climate-exposed countries.
At COP26 in Glasgow she steered the launch of IDF's hallmark Risk & Resilience Analytics programme focused on building risk analytics capability where it is needed the most. Thisincluded the launch of a formal partnership between the IDF and the V20 Group of Ministersof Finance from 58 Climate Vulnerable Countries on the establishment of the Global Risk Modelling Alliance and the joint establishment of the Global Resilience Index Initiative (GRII).
Ekhosuehi is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government and the University of the West Indies. In 2018 she was selected as Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Resident Practitioner Fellow and in 2020 was identified by Leader's magazine as one of 100 global resilience thought leaders. She served as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center between 2021 – 2023. She is also a serving member of the Climate Impacts Advisory Committee of the Wellcome Trust, one of the largest global charitable foundations.
