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Introduction

IIS Executive Insights Life & Health Expert: Ronald Klein, Founder, Obtutus Advisory GmbH

Introduction

During the past few decades, the world has become a much more dangerous place in which to live. Since 1970, the annual rate of change in the number of worldwide deaths has been increasing, but still was negative through 2018 (see Figure 1 below)¹ Since 2019, the rate of change began to increase. And, this is prior to the COVID pandemic which became a mortality event later in 2020. 
 

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Abstract

World trade faces risk of fragmentation amid a backdrop of polycrisis, combining geopolitics, ongoing wars, climate change, energy transition, post-pandemic economy (inflation and interest rates rises), and cybercrime. Unilateral trade agreements reduce world trade, create commodity vulnerability, and increase supply-chain risk. 

The Shin Research Program, underwritten from the generous support from Kyobo Life Insurance Company, is designed to stimulate original, theoretical research on practical issues in the insurance industry. For over three decades, the program has partnered with the International Insurance Society (IIS) to cultivate in-depth research on topics like regulation, microinsurance, genomics, cyber, resilience, and more. Conversations with industry executives and feedback from IIS’s annual Global Priorities Survey have highlighted the need for more research into talent and leadership trends.

The analysis examined the industry’s talent gap and found that Human Resource leaders are responding to a rapidly changing technological environment by increasingly looking for new candidates that have technical capacity over pre-existing technical fluency. New workers should also have a sense of broadness: a curious mind that can see the big picture and understand howtheir role connects to the broader mission of the company.

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