The Hellenic Association of Insurance Companies (EAEE) held an information event on Thursday 15 October, entitled “Natural disasters – Building a more resilient Greece”, attended by more than 150 representatives of government, institutional bodies and the insurance market.
The central message of the EAEE event was that cooperation, awareness, investment in prevention and stronger insurance coverage are essential to the effective management of natural disasters.
The event was opened by the EAEE’s Director General, Elina Papaspyropoulou.
Speakers at the event included Konstantinos Katsafados, Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection; Theoni Alambasi, Secretary General for the Financial Sector and Private Debt Management at the Ministry of National Economy and Finance; and Ioannis Tsikripis, Director General for Supervision at the Bank of Greece.
The main themes of the event were explored in presentations by Dr Vasiliki Kotroni, Research Director at the National Observatory of Athens; Errikos Moatsos, an EAEE board member and chair of its Property, Reinsurance, Transport and Vessels Committee; and Édouard Vieillefond, Director General of Caisse Centrale de Réassurance (CCR).
The event concluded with a discussion entitled “Resilience in practice: From prevention to insurance”, moderated by EAEE Vice-President Dimitris Mazarakis, with contributions from Ioannis-Dimitrios Papadimitriou, Deputy Finance Director at Viohalco SA, and Stratos Paradias, President of the Panhellenic Federation of Property Owners.