Mr Mamadou Koné has been elected President of the Federation of African National Insurance Companies (FANAF) for a three-year term. Mr Aymeric Kamega, CEO of ACAM Vie in Cameroon, was elected Vice President.
Together, they are tasked with strengthening the integration of African insurance markets, improving sector resilience and increasing the industry’s contribution to the continent’s economic development, according to the news platform Ecofin Agency. Mr Koné plans to modernise FANAF by making it more digital, inclusive and innovative.
Mr Koné has more than 25 years of experience in the insurance sector, with a career that includes life and non-life business, reinsurance, brokerage, actuarial work, regulation and governance.
He started with AXA in Côte d’Ivoire, before working with the National Insurance Directorate and later the Inter-African Conference on Insurance Markets (CIMA). Mr Koné was also a member of CIMA’s committee of experts from 2014 to 2020.
According to his LinkedIn, Mr Koné is the Chairman of the Association des Sociétés d'Assurances de Côte d'Ivoire, CEO of SanlamAllianz Côte d'Ivoire Assurances and Vice President of the General Confederation of Enterprises of Côte d’Ivoire.
He is a graduate of ENSAE Paris in Actuarial Science and holds an MBA from London Business School.
Mr Koné succeeds Mr César Ekomie-Afene.