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It’s all change at the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).
The professional body’s annual general meeting yesterday in York saw members express support for revisions aimed at modernising the CII’s bye-laws. These include the introduction of a Chartered Insurance Underwriting Agent title and the appointment of an independent chair in addition to the board president.
Also, the board will have four engagement members whose remit will be to engage the CII membership through mechanisms that will be developed by the body. Also getting the nod is a bye-law change involving general meetings which will allow members to attend them electronically.
To officially form part of the CII constitution, the changes will now be put to the Privy Council for final approval.
“These are important changes as they allow for much broader representation across the entire insurance profession,” stated CII chief executive Sian Fisher. “Underwriters are a significant community within our membership, and introducing this new designation will help to support, develop, and maintain the high standards and best practice this specific sector adheres to.
“Also, enabling members to attend and participate in important meetings electronically means that no-one need be excluded, which will benefit both the CII and our membership going forward.”
Meanwhile the professional body also welcomed new board president Nick Turner and deputy president Julie Page. They each bring more than three decades of insurance industry experience to their respective roles.
Page, the chief executive of Aon UK, also serves as deputy chair at the British Insurance Brokers’ Association, while Turner – whose credentials include AXA and NFU Mutual – previously held the position of Personal Finance Society board president.
