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Edward W.Ion

Associate Director

Ed was previously the Asia Bureau Chief of Insurance Day newspaper, the leading international daily insurance industry newspaper based in London.

A journalist for 20 years, Ed settled in Singapore in 1993 when he opened the local office of Lloyd’s List, the leading daily shipping newspaper and sister-paper of Insurance Day. Prior to that, he was Insurance Editor of Lloyd’s List in London. He learned about the business and practice of general insurance and reinsurance during his time spent “apprenticed” to the Brazier Syndicate at Lloyd’s of London.

After arriving in Singapore his duties as an Editor included covering most major issues and trends throughout the life and non life global insurance markets across the Asia region. He has reported on the life and general insurance sectors in Singapore and the rest of Asia on a daily basis for the past 12 years and has a solid appreciation of the issues and events which drive the markets in the region. In his most recent job, he regularly covered the life and non life sectors in Singapore including the work of The Life Insurance Association of Singapore and the General Insurance Association of Singapore.

Ed has led public affairs counselling programmes to a wide range of insurance industry clients including Allianz AG, Insight, the leading loss adjuster, Whittington Group, the Lloyd’s of London managing agent, AJ Gallagher, the leading US insurance broker, the General Insurance Association of Singapore and several others. He specialises in knowledge-based, issues-driven public affairs counsel for the insurance industry.

Ed is a graduate of the University of Manchester in the UK, graduating with honours in Politics and Modern History. He is also a frequent speaker at international conferences on media management crisis handling in the maritime and risk management industries. He is married with two children and is a Singapore Permanent Resident.

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