Ghana Life MD sweeps laurels

The Managing Director of Ghana Life Insurance, Mr Ivan Avereyireh, has joined the ‘Insurance Hall of Fame’ as a Fellow of the prestigious West African Insurance Institute (WAII), effective December 4, 2015.

He is one of nine deserving insurance practitioners selected across the West African sub-region who distinguished themselves in various capacities towards the growth of the industry this year.

Mr Avereyireh is the current President of the Ghana Insurers Association (GIA) as well as the President of the West African Insurance Companies Association (WAICA), the sub-regional Association of Insurance companies in Anglophone West Africa.

The West African Insurance Institute (WAII) decorated Mr Avereyireh with the Fellowship at an august ceremony in The Gambia by a representative of the President of the country, with a plaque from the institute.

The WAII fellowship is a prestigious one instituted in 1994 and has members such as Dr Ernest Bai` Koroma, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Professor J. O. Irukwu, a doyen of Insurance in Nigeria and a few Ghanaians, including the Commissioner of Insurance, Ms Lydia Lariba Bawa, and a former GIA President, Mr Kwame Gazo-Agbenyadzie.

As if by design, Mr Avereyireh, the Ghana Life Insurance number one strategic arrow-head, a Chartered Insurer par excellence also received the Nobles International Award in September 2015 from the West Africa Nobles Forum for ‘being an Eminent West African who upholds the virtues of Honesty, Integrity and Accountability’, for his show of exemplary leadership among others.