Claudia Thyme is Senior Adviser Strategy, Engagement and Programmes at the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), as well as founder and Director of her company, AEBRA. She promotes and executes opportunities to drive the use of disaster risk financing and insurance capabilities to strengthen nations’ resilience and protect their development gains.

Claudia has more than twenty-five years’ experience in the insurance industry, having held senior global roles in business development, strategy and communications and marketing at Zurich and AXA. She also has many years’ experience working with Africa, Asia and Latin America.

At IDF she led the publication of the IDF Guide to Insuring Public Assets, and as Co-Chair of the IDF Sovereign & Humanitarian Solutions Working Group she operationalised the Tripartite Agreement Programme to deliver risk financing and technical support to developing countries.

She is a member of the Risk Informed Early Action Partnership (REAP) Governing Board and of the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII).

Claudia is a graduate of Georgetown University, Washington D.C., and holds an MBA from City University London Business School, and a Certificate on Behavioral Economics from the Academy of Behavioral Economics/ GDI.