International Women’s DayThe theme of International Women’s Day in 2025 is #AccelerateAction. At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2158, which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full gender parity, according to data from the World Economic Forum. Focusing on the need to accelerate action, Insurance Post is looking for 600-word comment pieces for #IWD2025 outlining at least five swift and decisive steps the author or their organisation has taken to achieve gender equality and how progress will be measured. What are the systemic barriers and biases that women, in their personal and professional spheres working in insurance, face? How are barriers being broken and biases addressed? Please send your comment pieces across to emma.hughes@infopro-digital.com with “IWD2025” in the subject line of your email by Friday 31 January. Insurance Post Power ListInsurance Post’s Power List will reveal the movers and shakers in the industry in 2025. To help us produce this celebration of those shaping the future of insurance we are looking for you to:
• submit a brief biography of your CEO, managing director or leader.
• share no more than four bullet points of their EDI and ESG achievements in 2024.
• share their most popular social media handle as well as their number of followers.
• send us a selection of up-to-date photos of your CEO, managing director or leader. Please send this information across to emma.hughes@infopro-digital.com with “Power List” in the subject line of your email by Thursday 13 February. The information you send across, plus our own research, will be used to rank the industry’s leaders as well as produce an analysis and podcast on how power and influence is changing in the sector and society generally. Whether your CEO has made the Power List will then be revealed at the start of the British Insurance Brokers Association conference, which takes place on Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 May. Features Topic: When will insurance get more female leaders? Writer: Damisola Sulaiman (damisola.sulaiman@infopro-digital.com) Deadline: Wednesday 5 February To mark International Women’s Day, Insurance Post will examine why the upper echelons of insurance still feature so few women aged 50-plus. - What will it take to attract and retain more women in top jobs?
- What can be learnt from the experiences of the likes of Aviva Group’s Amanda Blanc, Aon’s Julie Page and ex-Direct Line Group CEO Penny James about the issues women rather than male leaders face?
- What steps will it take to have gender equality among CEOs of the sector?
- When will the insurance industry have as many female leaders as male ones? Who are these female leaders likely to be in a decade’s time?
Please share your tips on women we are likely to see at the top of insurance companies soon. Topic: Lessons for insurers to learn from LA Wildfires Writer: Marcel Le Gouais (marcellegouais81@yahoo.co.uk) Deadline: Wednesday 5 February As the scale of uninsured losses from the Los Angeles wildfires becomes clear, are insurers ready for a climate change-induced ‘new normal’?
• How should insurers step up their efforts to improve policyholders risk resilience and address underinsurance?
• What action should the industry take to create public-private partnerships that address emerging risks?
• In terms of response to policyholders who lost their homes and businesses in LA, how should the sector be stepping up for this “surge event” and managing customer expectations?
Topic: How insurers are helping businesses grow Writer: Edmund Tirbutt (tirbutt@aol.com) Deadline: Thursday 6 February Chancellor Rachel Reeves says the UK must go “further and faster” to achieve economic growth, following days of nerves in the financial markets. After a period of economic turbulence for the fresh Labour government, how can insurance provide the safety net required to ensure businesses focus on growth and success in the months and years to come? - How are the sector’s products and services supporting businesses to grow from SME to mid-corporate today?
- What innovation is taking place among commercial insurers to ensure the sector can accelerate growth and help the Labour party hit their targets for the UK economy?
- What role have brokers played in ensuring start-ups swiftly shift to becoming big names known by the average man on the street?
- How can the sector better demonstrate the role it has in increasing growth in the UK and use this to push for more proportionate regulation moving forward?
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