ADB hires Kessler from Swiss Re for disaster risk insurance role

The Asian Development Bank has hired Thomas Kessler, a long-time Swiss Re executive, into a newly created role of Principal Disaster Risk Insurance & Finance Specialist. He will be focused on the development and implementation of risk transfer instruments as part of the ADB's offering in Disaster Risk Finance and Sustainable Infrastructure Project Finance solutions.

Kessler originally joined global reinsurance firm Swiss Re in 1994 and worked across a number of regions, including Japan, New York and Zurich. Then between 2012 and 2015 Kessler was seconded to become the Deputy CEO of Vietnam National Reinsurance Corporation, before returning to Swiss Re and taking a Head of South East & East Asia Global Partnerships role at the firm.