Dr. Ben Kajwang

Director and CEO

College of Insurance, Kenya

Presidential honor admission to the prestigious rank of the Moran of the order of the Burning Spear (MBS) by His Excellency the President during the 60th Jamuhuri Day celebrations.
Council Member, Africa-Re Foundation one of the bodies of the Africa Union
He is the immediate former President of the AIO and former Chairman of the Association of Insurance Trainers Educators in Africa under the same body.
He currently sits in the Board of Africa Insurance Organization – AIO Foundation.
He is an Executive Board Member and Chairing the Human Resource Committee of the Organization of East and Southern Africa Insurers (OESAI). He is currently serving as a Board Member and Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Policyholders Compensation Fund (PCF) in Kenya.
Authored nine Books and written over seventy Publications in the Financial Sector with more emphasis on Insurance in different International Academic Journals.
He has also been the Team Leader, Regional Study on Development of Insurance Certification Program by the East Africa Community – Financial Sector Development and Regionalization Project I (EAC – FSDRP I) and a Member of FARMD – the Global Forum for Agricultural Risk Management in Development (an arm of the World Bank).
He has also been a jurist for the Champions of Governance (COG) Award, Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya, THINK BUSINESS Insurance Awards and Association of Insurance Brokers of Kenya (AIBK) BIMA Awards.
He has and continues to present papers in several forums, locally and internationally. He has also been feted by local Kenyan dailies as a Transformative Chief Executive Officer with Golden Hands (Nation Newspaper and Business Daily) on innovation, transformation, leadership and strategy. He has several publications in both local and international journals.
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Strategic Management. He is a Chartered Insurer of the CII London and Fellow of several Insurance Institutes. He is also an Associate of the Institute of Risk Management (UK).
He has cemented his visionary leadership by developing the state of the art, word class 5-star convention Centre, with conference and accommodation facilities that caters for the growing demand for meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions and the host venue of the 48th AIO Conference and General Assembly (the Edge Hotel and Convention Centre).
Dr. Ben Kajwang is currently the Director and CEO of the College of Insurance, Kenya. He has had a distinguished career in the insurance industry spanning over two-decades where he has held senior positions in Broking, insurance, and reinsurance companies.